The Assassination of Trotsky 1972  R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Enrico Maria Salerno, Luigi Vannucchi, Duilio Del Prete, Claudio Brook, Jean Desailly, Simone Valere, Carlos Miranda, Peter Chatel, Jack Betts, Michael Forest
While exiled in Mexico City, Russian Revolution leader Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton) is the victim of Frank Jacson's (Alain Delon) successful assassination plot. This film involves the final months in Trotsky's life and shows how Jacson, with help from his girlfriend Gita Samuels (Romy Schneider)–who just happens to be one of Trotsky's secretaries–manages to get close enough to Trotsky to kill him.
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The Child 1972 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action / Mystery / Horror / Thriller
aka: Who Saw Her Die?
Director: Aldo Lado
Cast: George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi, Rosemarie Lindt, Peter Chatel, Dominique Boschero, George Willing, Piero Vida, Jose Quaglio, Alessandro Haber, Nicoletta Elmi, Giovanni Forti Rosselli, Sandro Grinfan, Carlo Hollesch, Vittorio Fanfoni
First it is a girl in the French Alps who is kidnapped and killed, and later the same happens in Venice to the daughter (Nicoletta Elmi) of a well-known sculptor, Franco (George Lazenby). The police are unable to solve the crimes, Franco decides to investigate, and the body count rises as he nears the answers.
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Martha 1974  TV, 116 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Bohm, Barbara Valentin, Peter Chatel, Gisela Fackeldey, Adrian Hoven, Ortrud Beginnen, Kurt Raab, Ingrid Caven, Peter Berling, Gunter Lamprecht, El Hedi ben Salem
Martha (Margit Carstensen) has lived a protected life, but her lifestyle changes when, immediately following her father's death, she marries a stranger (Karlheinz Bohm), and the battles begin.
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Satan's Brew 1976 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Kurt Raab, Helen Vita, Margit Carstensen, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Y Sa Lo, Ulli Lommel, Katherina Buchhammer, Armin Meier, Vitus Zeplichal, Brigitte Mira, Peter Chatel
Washed-up writer Walter (Kurt Raab) needs money, but various efforts fail until his mistress helps, after which she asks him to kill her while in a sexually-aroused condition. He accommodates her and goes home to his brash, slovenly wife (Helen Vita) and mentally challenged Ernst (Volker Spengler) who tries to have sex with flies. After other adventures, he writes a piece, which his wife identifies as being written by a 19th century homosexual poet. Convinced he is a reincarnation of that poet, he sticks with that persona. And on it goes in this dark, dark comedy.
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| 1. The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
2. The Child (1972)
aka: Who Saw Her Die?
3. Martha (1974)
4. Satan's Brew (1976)
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