Der Fan to Open at Metrograph In Theater for One-Week NY Run
The restored psychological thriller stars Désirée Nosbusch and features a synth-pop score by Bodo Staiger's band Rheingold.
Beginning Friday, August 28, DER FAN, West German provocateur Eckhart Schmidt's previously hard-to-see feature, opens for an exclusive one-week NY theatrical engagement at Metrograph In Theater.
The film runs 92 mins, is from West Germany, 1982, in German with English subtitles, presented in 4K DCP.
Teen runaway Simone (Désirée Nosbusch, entrancingly opaque) loves the Neue Deutsche Welle pop singer known only as 'R' (Bodo Staiger)… loves him so much, in fact, that she could just about eat him alive. And when she finally meets her idol—only to be callously treated by him as a disposable sex object—well, Simone gets the chance to really become one with her beloved forever. A hard, cool-to-the-touch, and utterly riveting slow-burn psychological thriller that, newly restored for its first ever US theatrical release, speaks to an age of parasocial obsession, featuring a sinister synth-pop soundtrack by Staiger's own band, Rheingold, and a last act that's finger-lickin' good.
Der Fan has been restored in 4K from its original 35mm camera negative by Fun City Editions. The film is presented with its original stereo soundtrack for the first time since its initial German theatrical release in 1982.
Introduction by filmmaker Jacqueline Castel on Friday, August 28.
Accompanying the run of Der Fan, Metrograph presents That Most Taboo of Red Meats, a series of films about women cannibals, running August 21 to August 30. Titles include House, In My Skin, Jennifer's Body, Raw, and Spider Baby.
