"Gods of the Plague"
1969
Directed by Rainer W. Fassbinder

Fassbinder's third feature, about a petty criminal who plans to rob a supermarket, only to be betrayed by the two women who love him. "Fassbinder's gangster film doesn't happen on the level of black limousines, bursts of machine-gun fire, blinking blondes and detective brilliance; it uses more lower-class people and shoplifters; 'little' girls who do all that for love of the great glamour" (Goethe Institute). With Hanna Schygulla, Harry Baer and Margarethe von Trotta. German with English subtitles.  92 minutes.