Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Claudio Carvalho In 1925, in Germany, Fritz Haarmann (Kurt Raab) is a homosexual, thief and sneak, having a special license from the police. He sells meat in the black market. He also kills boys and young men, drinking their bloods, quarter-sewing their bodies and throwing away the parts in a river. Certainly what he sells in the black market is human meat.This movie is very weird. The period (1925) is only defined in the last scene, and apparently it is based on a true story. In Brazil, the VHS is spoken in Italian having delay in the subtitles in Portuguese. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): 'O Delírio Assassino em Adolfo e Marlene' ('The Assassination Delirium in Adolf and Marlene')

Flixer1957 Years before he came to America to delight us with THE DEVONSVILLE TERROR and THE BOOGEYMAN, Herr Lommel teamed up with the Fassbinder troupe to give us this beaut. It's based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann who prospered in post-World War I Germany by way of theft and murder. A police informer posing as a detective, he lures young lads from the train station to his apartment where they're drugged, raped and finally murdered by having their throats chewed open. Then they're hacked up and their flesh sold as beef or pork. Haarmann's neighbors complain about the noise he makes–if they only knew. Much of his activity is left to the imagination but what's shown is truly disturbing and was considered mean stuff at the time. Shaven-headed and pointy-eared, Kurt Raab looks suitably predatory in the lead role. Jurgen Prochnow's name appears in the main credits but so far I haven't been able to spot him. This movie claims that Haarmann was hanged in 1925 but other sources say he was beheaded. His execution should have been shown; I really wanted to see this dirt-bag get it before the film's end. TENDERNESS...is all the more disturbing because it's so well made, possessing a grim, bleak atmosphere lacking in Lommel's later, more commercial work. Not for the squeamish, the homophobic or anyone expecting a normal motion picture.

axe_hallorann I found this film to be more interesting than I expected. The film, to me, is clearly not meant to be a historic film about Fritz Haarmann. There is a line in the film that makes a reference to the Nazi's (their rise to power wasn't until nine years after Haarmann's execution) and how difficult life is for everyone in post-war Germany. The character of Fritz Haarmann was used as a metaphor for the German people "cannabalizing" each other just to survive. The costumes, language, and vehicles also seemed to be of a later decade. Much like Werner Herzog's "The Enegma of Kaspar Hauser", "Tenderness of the Wolves" uses a real historical figure (taken with some liberties) as a criticism of society as a whole. Having said that, the film is not particularly outstanding in any way. The concept is interesting, and contains the leading actors of Fassbinder's "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul", as well as Fissbinder himself. Still, I would have to say the film is only slightly above average; both as a Fassbinder film and the German New Wave.

Mithras-4 This movie was shot in only 23 days at a theatre in Düsseldorf. It´s about a gay murderer who kills lots of young boys and then butchers them in order to eat ´em with his friends.-Sounds scary, but it´s incredible how the film crew created an stunning atmosphere with just a very low budget. Fassbinder couldn´t direct because he did other projects, so crew member and actor Uli Lommel did the job. Many Fassbinder friends join the movie. See this unusual one!