Peter von Kant

Name: Peter von Kant
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 2022
Duration: 85 min
Cast: Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani, Hanna Schygulla, Khalil Ben Gharbia, Stefan Crepon

François Ozon20221h 25mRomance, Drama

Why we chose it

François Ozon turns Fassbinder’s famous play and film “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” on its head by making the lead a man, a director in Cologne who falls for a beautiful young man at first sight while his assistant looks on in silence. Hanna Schygulla, once the lover, now plays the mother.

Synopsis

In Cologne in 1972, Peter von Kant is a celebrated director who spends his days writing scripts in his apartment, receives only a chosen few and is waited on by an assistant who never says a word. Then an old friend turns up with a beautiful young man named Amir, and Peter promises to make him a star.