Rainer Werner Fassbinder

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 tale of an arrogant but successful fashion designer, her mistreated secretary, and the new 23-year-old model she falls in love with.

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.

Considered one of the greats in German cinema, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1979 classic follows a widow in the rubble of post-war Berlin.