How Is One to Live If One Doesn’t Want to Die?

Name: How Is One to Live If One Doesn’t Want to Die?
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Released: 1980-10-13
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser, Claus Holm, Brigitte Mira, Roger Fritz

S1 E2 October 13, 1980 1h 0m

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Overview

Biberkopf is self-employed, hawking necktie holders on the street, but has trouble making enough and doesn't consider himself an orator. After turning down the opportunity to sell sex ed manuals, he's talked into selling the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter and wearing a swastika armband. In the subway, Franz is confronted by a Jewish man selling hot sausages, but denies being antisemitic, and Dreske with two other men also known to him. Dreske admires Lenin and the Soviet Union, but Franz responds by decrying revolution and 'their' Weimar Republic.