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PeterHesslein

Supermarkt [Die Stadt, Jane Love / Supermarket] (Roland Klick, 1974)

Apr

16

National Cash Day

Supermarkt (1974)

A dirty, cut hand attempts to steal a few coins from a dish at a public toilet. DP: Jost Vacano.

Good-for-nothing Willi (Charly Wierzejewski) is in trouble. After yet another run-in with the law, and yet again meeting the wrong people at the wrong time, he falls in love with a destitute street worker (Eva Mattes). Now he really needs #money so he can support himself, her, and her kid. He tries his hand at renting himself out to a rich homosexual (homosexuality was illegal in 1970s W Germany), then moves forward to robbing the money transporter of a local supermarket with his pimp buddy. But as usual, Willi is in trouble.

 

Shot on location in #Hamburg's red-light district St. Pauli, Supermarkt is gritty, unpleasant and has an authenticity rarely seen in other films of this genre.