Based on his own play, Fassbinder's second film is a powerful, sensitive study of ignorance and prejudice.

Fassbinder is already utilizing that idiosyncratic, iconoclastic style of his in this very early entry in his filmography, and dealing with themes he would revisit later: Someone is 'different', he's alienated, "people are talking", everyone is preoccupied with sex, and money plays an overblown role in people's relationships. Otherwise Fassbinder had not fully blossomed yet and this still looks like a draft for the wiser, better made films that are to come.

The earliest Fassbinder I can get with. It didn't take him too long.