Fox and His Friends

Synopsis

A working-class Munich carnival performer nicknamed 'Fox the Talking Head' wins half a million marks in the Bavarian lottery, only to be systematically seduced, financially exploited, and discarded by an elegant bourgeois antique dealer and his bourgeois clique. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's devastating, unsparing Marxist melodrama of emotional and financial exploitation, starring Fassbinder himself in one of his greatest performances.