Satan's Brew

SATAN'S BREW may be the least interesting film made by the great Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a shrill and tiresome attempt at a screwball black comedy about a talentless poet and his grotesquely dysfunctional family.

Walter Krantz (Kurt Raab) is a washed-up "poet of the revolution" who hasn't written a new line in two years and is desperate for money. After being rejected by his publishers for an advance, he visits some married friends named Rolf and Lilly (Marquard Bohm and Ingrid Caven), but is again turned down. He then sees his mistress, a submissive nymphomanic named Irmgard (Katherina Buchhammer) who has an orgasm while writing him a check. At the point of h...