Die Bettwurst (1971)
8/10
Great work, within its time, funny, satirically
24 May 2022
Movies like they don't make them any longer.

Despite of zillions of handycams and mobile phones, it also required a genius like Rosa von Praunheim to set up a masterpiece in its own class.

For younger people it might be completely incomprehensible; and maybe likewise for viewers who don't speak German.

Two people, outside of the 'desirable' societal conventions, lone wolves, encounter each other while reproducing exactly those conventions en détail that the society to which they don't belong, prescribe.

Like addressing each other with 'Sie' , that is like Sir and Madam. Totally conventionally in their petty bourgeois life style. And yet, still outcasts in that exactly same society.

Two sympathetic lonesome people meet, and become lovers.

Sometimes funny, but never boring.
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