Rainer Werner Fassbinder's final film is an adaptation of Jean Genet's infamous novel
Querelle de Brest, which deals with a sailor coming to terms with his homosexuality. Querelle (Brad Davis, star of MIDNIGHT EXPRESS), a self-absorbed young man in search of his identity, slits the throat
of his opium-smuggling partner, Vic (Dieter Schidor), when their ship docks at Brest. In the meantime, another murder is committed by Gil (Hanno Poschl), a man who looks very much like Querelle's brother, Robert (also played by Poschl). In a brothel run by Lysiane (Jeanne Moreau), Querelle meets a
number of the regulars, including Lysiane's husband, Nono (Gunther Kaufmann),...
Released:
1982
Rated:
NR
Length:
106 mins