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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Nudity, Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1969 DVD Release: 06/10/2003 Format: DVD - Black and White,Pan and Scan Edition: Restored/Remastered Audio Tracks: German Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 28 mins Studio: Fox Lorber Members Wishing: 3 Genres: Drama, Crime Drama

Gods of the Plague (Gotter der Pest) is one of several German films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder under his pseudonym of Franz Walsch. That's Fassbinder, however, playing the small role of a buyer of pornography. The main story involves a pair of two-bit hoods who spend most of the film one-upping each other with a brace of scheming females. Their dreary life of crime comes to a spectacular head in a shoot-out at a supermarket. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Hanna Schygulla
Margarethe von Trotta
Harry Baer

Gods of the Plague (Gotter der Pest) is one of several German films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder under his pseudonym of Franz Walsch. That's unmistakably Fassbinder, however, playing the small role of a buyer of pornography. The main story involves a pair of two-bit hoods who spend most of the film one-upping each other with a brace of scheming females. Their dreary life of crime comes to a spectacular head in a shoot-out at a supermarket. Gods of the Plague is cut from the same cloth as such New Wave films as Breathless, but even at this early date Fassbinder was too original a filmmaker to stoop to mere emulation. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide