DER FAN

West Germany | 1982 | DCP | 92 min.
Director: Eckhart Schmidt
Cast: Désirée Nosbusch, Bodo Steiger, Simone Brahmann
Teenager Simone (Nosbusch) has developed a bordering-on-unhealthy obsession with pop singer R (Steiger). Abandoning school and her family to pursue her fantasy, Simone encounters her idol at a TV taping and the stage is set for a coolly enacted nightmare of seduction, rejection, and revenge. Eerily directed in a clinically detached style, this hypnotic thriller was never given an official theatrical release in the U.S. until now. The 4K DCP restoration of the original German language version is provided by Fun City Editions.