The 120 Days of Bottrop

The 120 Days of Bottrop

1997•1h 0m•5.1/10

Comedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.1/10(19)

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

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Production

DEM Film, Neue Volkskunst

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Margit Carstensen

Margit Carstensen

Self

Irm Hermann

Irm Hermann

Self / Liselotte Pulver

Volker Spengler

Volker Spengler

The Producer

Udo Kier

Udo Kier

Self

Helmut Berger

Helmut Berger

Self

Mario Gazaner

Sönke Buckmann / Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Sophie Rois

Sophie Rois

Self

Ilse Garzaner

Christophs Mutter

Martin Wuttke

Martin Wuttke

Christoph Schlingensief

Kurt Garzaner

Christophs Vater

Bernhard Schütz

Bernhard Schütz

Self

Gerry Jochum

2. Aufnahmeleiter

Dietrich Kuhlbrodt

Dietrich Kuhlbrodt

Hauptkritiker

Brigitte Kausch

Brigitte Kausch

1. Kritikerin

Kerstin Graßmann

2. Kritikerin

Charlotte Siebenrock

3. Kritikerin

Irmgard Freifrau von Berswordt-Wallrabe

Leni Riefenstahl

Roland Emmerich

Roland Emmerich

Self

Leander Haußmann

Leander Haußmann

Achim von Paczensky

Heiner Müller

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