The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant [Criterion Collection] BOTY_2025 and even curves

and even curves

Gripping and powerful

globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging

Erza's faith is waning when God intervenes and sends him on a mission to protect Sunny

Will they make it

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant [Criterion Collection] BOTY_2025 and even curves"Writer director Rainer Werner Fassbinder turned out filmed dramas like The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant faster than we could watch them in the early 1970s. Fassbinder's favorite actress Hanna Schygulla plays the secretary of the title character (portrayed by Margit Carstensen). Recently divorced, the lonely Petra von Kant turns to Schygulla for comfort and, eventually, sexual gratification. The thesis set forth by Fassbinder (who was himself gay)