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Fear of Fear

Fear of Fear

1976 · 88 min · DE · 6.3 (31 votes)
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Starring Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann, Armin Meier, Kurt Raab · Music Peer Raben
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After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.

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A deeply unsettling portrait of domestic dread. It captures the quiet terror of a mind unraveling within the confines of a seemingly ordinary life, leaving you with a lingering sense of unease.

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