La tendresse des loups

Fritz Haarmann is known to the police for his many offences, especially in the area of vice, and is recruited as an informer to track down black market networks. Taking advantage of his new status, he wanders around Cologne train station at night to track down lonely boys, often runaways. Under the guise of false promises, Haarmann lures them to his house before killing them and making their bodies disappear in a very strange way....

Made in 1973, Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (The Tenderness of Wolves) is based on the true story of ‘Der Schlächter von Hannover’, a serial killer who made headlines in Germany just after World War I and inspired Fritz Lang and his M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (Murderers Among Us). For his second feature film, actor-director Ulli Lommel chose to set his story 30 years later, in a country once again ravaged by poverty and the horrors of Nazism. Rainer Werner Fassbinder not only produced the film - and made a remarkable cameo in it - but also brought along his ‘troupe’ of friends and performers, including the immense Kurt Raab (Satans Braten), who plays a terrifying psychopath reminiscent of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu.