In a Year of 13 Moons explained

In a Year of 13 Moons (de|In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden) is a 1978 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Volker Spengler.^[1] The film was made in response to the suicide of Fassbinder's lover at the time, Armin Meier. In a "Top 10" list of his own films, Fassbinder placed In a Year of 13 Moons second, after Beware of a Holy Whore.^[2]

Cast

• Volker Spengler as Erwin / Elvira Weishaupt
• Ingrid Caven as Rote Zora
• Gottfried John as Anton Saitz
• Elisabeth Trissenaar as Irene Weishaupt
• Eva Mattes as Marie-Ann Weishaupt
• Günther Kaufmann as J. Smolik, chauffeur
• Lilo Pempeit as Sister Gudrun (as Liselotte Pempeit)
• Isolde Barth as Sybille
• Karl Scheydt as Christoph Hacker
• Walter Bockmayer as Soul-Frieda
• Peter Kollek as alcoholic
• Bob Dorsay as city tramp
• Gerhard Zwerenz as Burghard Hauser, writer^[3]

External links

• • Official website at the Fassbinder Foundation

Notes and References

1. News: New York Times: In a Year of 13 Moons . https://web.archive.org/web/20080525113309/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/96366/In-a-Year-of-13-Moons/overview . dead . 25 May 2008 . 5 August 2008. Vincent . Movies & TV Dept. . . Vincent Canby . 2008 . Canby.
2. Book: The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes. October 1992. Johns Hopkins University Press. 978-0801843693.
3. Web site: Fassbinder Foundation: In a Year with 13 Moons . 31 December 2014. Fassbinder Foundation.