The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

"The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant"
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Manipulation of feelings. Love as a disease. Getting caught in the cage of one's passion. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" was written in 1971. The famous film was created in 1972. "I don't like it when they torture me, I like it when I torture myself," said the director of the film, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. This phrase of the director best describes the essence of the film. Torture, of course, implies mental torture and emotional manipulation.

The melodramatic story goes beyond the boundaries of the genre and becomes a more conceptual drama in the background of an intense love story, in which such themes as loneliness, manipulation of other people's feelings, obedience, freedom are raised.