Red Sun Blu-Ray

Thomas (Marquard Bohm, Kings of the Road) gets a ride to Munich, where he finds his ex-girlfriend Peggy (counterculture activist and model Uschi Obermaier), who takes him in. In her apartment, he discovers that Peggy and her roommates have a commune-like lifestyle where they kill the men in their lives after five days, but will Thomas realize this in time? Red Sun is a pop fantasy that focuses on the post-68 era and women's liberation and was compared to a comic book by Wim Wenders. It is a beautiful collision of art genres that is both brilliantly bizarre and provocative. Director Rudolf Thome was an emerging talent in New German Cinema alongside Wenders, Fassbinder, and Herzog, but received little international distribution and fell into obscurity despite a consistent career spanning six decades. Radiance Films is proud to present Red Sun to English-speaking audiences for the first time in a restoration supervised by Thome.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

High-resolution digital transfer supervised by director Rudolf Thome

Commentary on selected scenes with Thome and Rainer Langhans, Obermaier's boyfriend and member of Kommune 1 who inspired the film and was present during filming. Rote Sonne between Pop Sensibility and Social Critique - A newly produced visual essay by researcher Johannes von Moltke about Rote Sonne, which looks at the social and cultural influences on the film and provides context for the time in which it was made (2022, 21 min)p>

From Oberhausen to the Fall of the Wall: A visual essay by academic and presenter Margaret Deriaz tracing the development of New German Cinema from the Oberhausen Manifesto to the fall of the Berlin Wall (2023, 50 min)

Language: German

Subtitles: : English