Kamikaze 1989

Legendary German renegade actor/writer/director/maniac Rainer Werner Fassbinder's final screen role casts him as an alcoholic police lieutenant -- clad in a leopard-skin suit, no less -- who is tasked with foiling a bomb threat in West Germany's near future. Adapted from Per Wahlöö's 1964 dystopian novel "Murder on the 31st Floor," KAMIKAZE '89 imagines a totalitarian society ruled by a corporation called The Combine, which controls the media and suppresses all murmurs of dissent or unhappiness. Featuring Franco Nero as a journalist and Brigitte Mira (in her last collaboration with Fassbinder) as a director of personnel, KAMIKAZE '89 filters dystopian parables like the concurrent BLADE RUNNER through the West Berlin punk scene, resulting in a uniquely chilling prophecy.