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The French naval ship, Le Vengeur, based out of Marseille, has just docked in Brest for an extended stay. The ships captain, Lieutenant Seblon, can see the passion in his men, which can as easily manifest itself in violence as it can in sex. Seblon has in part become an officer to remain at arms length from his men, one of them, Querelle, with who he is secretly in love. Querelle goes to La Feria, a bar and makeshift whorehouse owned and operated by husband and wife Nono and Lysiane, one of the whores. La Feria is infamous and notorious as anyone wanting sex with Lysiane must first roll the dice with Nono, Nono winning meaning that he will get to sodomize the loser instead. At La Feria, Querelle is surprised to see his brother, Robert, who is Lysianes current on-going sexual partner, and who did not have to go through the roll of the dice with Nono is his special position with Lysiane. That passion in Querelle extends to his brother, the two who share more than just a family resemblance. Outwardly, Querelle goes to La Feria as a place to sell opium. However, the opium may only be a pretense as Querelle is trying to discover who he is as a man. Everyone in this collective is also on a similar sense of discovery, some who may be more aware and open about their own thoughts about the lines between sex, desire and love, those who are not as open possibly feeling shame which leads to ways to deal with that shame. Including those already mentioned, this collective includes a local stone mason named Gilles who purports to desire Paulette, a young man named Roger, Paulettes brother, with who there is unspoken sexual tension with Gilles, and Mario who, at least in appearance, "polices" the activities at La Feria.
Director s final film is a deliriously stylized tale of hothouse lust and simmering violence. Set amid an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French sea port, this daring adaptation of a novel by recounts the tragedy of a handsome sailor () as he is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality. Completed just before Fassbinders sudden death at 37, QUERELLE finds the director pushing his embrace of artifice and taboo-shattering depiction of queer desire to new extremes.
Brad Davis
Querelle
Franco Nero
Lieutenant Seblon
Jeanne Moreau
Lysiane
Laurent Malet
Roger Bataille
Hanno Pöschl
Robert
Günther Kaufmann
Nono
Burkhard Driest
Mario
Roger Fritz
Marcellin
Dieter Schidor
Vic Rivette
Natja Brunckhorst
Paulette
Robert van Ackeren
Betrunkener Legionär
Werner Asam
Arbeiter
Isolde Barth
Mädchen
Axel Bauer
Arbeiter
Neil Bell
Theo
Gilles Gavois
Matrose
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Arbeiter
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