GERMANY · 1975

Fear of Fear

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
New German Cinema postpartum depression mental illness misdiagnosis family dysfunction isolation
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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.

Year1975
CountryGermany
DirectorRainer Werner Fassbinder
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