Pioneers in Ingolstadt

Pioneiros de Ingolstadt estreava há 50 anos na TV da Alemanha ocidental. Sejamos francos, isso aqui é bem medíocre para um Fassbinder, acho que é o filme que menos gostei dele até hoje, mas mesmo mediano, jamais ruim. Plus: Hanna Schygulla é perfeita demais. DVDRip no Reviviendo Viejas Joyas.

Somewhat underrated if inessential Fassbinder, although i can sort of understand why it gets overlooked. It's a bit rough around the edges (it was a quickly-made television production after all) if not completely without the director's usual formal charms from this period, and thematically it covers a lot of the same ground as other, similar Fassbinder films. At best it's like a sort of cut-rate companion piece to Katzelmacher, which is to say it's still pretty good by normal standards.

This film is perhaps a little too intimate for its own good in that it neglects to paint any of the bigger picture of the characters, locations or environment surrounding its protagonists' lives. Hard to like.

"Fassbinder is clearly bored...and it shows." - Ed Gonzalez

Not Fassbinder's best work but still good. An analogy is drawn between the military hierarchy and the unofficial hierarchies prevalent in society.