main_subject querelle
The Screens is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet . Its first few productions all used abridged versions , beginning with its world premiere under Hans Lietzau ' s direction in Berlin in May 1961 . Its first complete performance was staged in ___MASK15___ in 1964 , two years before Roger Blin directed its French premiere in Paris . ___MASK51___ producers fill a variety of roles depending upon the type of producer . Either employed by a production ___MASK8___ or independent , producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production , such as selecting script , coordinating writing , directing and editing , and arranging financing . During the " discovery stage ", the producer has to find and acknowledge promising material . Then , unless the film is supposed to be based on an original script , the producer has to find an appropriate screenwriter . Querelle of Brest is a novel by the French ___MASK77___ Jean Genet . It was first published anonymously in 1947 and limited to 460 numbered copies . It is set in the midst of the port town of Brest , where sailors and the sea are associated with ___MASK61___ . Its protagonist , Georges Querelle , is a bisexual thief , prostitute and ___MASK4___ who manipulates and kills his lovers for thrills and profit . The novel formed the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder ' s last film , " Querelle " ( 1982 ). Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( 31 May 1945  10 June 1982 ) was a German ___MASK51___ director , screenwriter , ___MASK51___ producer and ___MASK33___ . Fassbinder was part of the New German Cinema movement . Querelle is a 1982 West German - French ___MASK58___ - language drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brad Davis , adapted from French author Jean Genet ' s 1947 novel Querelle de Brest . It marked Fassbinder ' s final film as a writer / director ; it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a ___MASK18___ overdose in June 1982 . An ___MASK33___ ( or actress for females ; see terminology ) is a person who portrays a character in a performance . The ___MASK33___ performs " in the flesh " in the traditional medium of the theatre , or in modern mediums such as film , radio , and ___MASK52___ . The analogous Greek term is , literally " one who answers ". The ___MASK33___ ' s interpretation of their role pertains to the role played , whether based on a real person or fictional character . Interpretation occurs even when the ___MASK33___ is " playing themselves ", as in some forms of experimental performance art , or , more commonly ; to act , is to create , a character in performance . The Balcony is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet . Set in an unnamed ___MASK30___ that is experiencing a revolutionary uprising in the streets , most of the action takes place in an upmarket brothel that functions as a microcosm of the regime of the establishment under threat outside . A ___MASK51___ director is a person who directs the making of a ___MASK51___ . Generally , a ___MASK51___ director controls a ___MASK51___ ' s artistic and dramatic aspects , and visualizes the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision . The director has a key role in choosing the cast members , production ___MASK88___ , and the creative aspects of filmmaking . Under European Union ___MASK55___ , the director is viewed as the author of the ___MASK51___ . Jean Genet ( ) was a French novelist , playwright , ___MASK35___ , essayist , and political activist . Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal , but he later took to writing . His major works include the novels " Querelle of Brest ", " The Thief ' s Journal ", and " Our Lady of the Flowers ", and the plays " The Balcony ", " The Blacks ", " The Maids " and " The Screens ". A screenplay ___MASK77___ , screenwriter for short , scriptwriter or scenarist is a ___MASK77___ who practices the craft of screenwriting , ___MASK96___ screenplays on which mass media such as films , ___MASK52___ programs , comics or video games are based . Our Lady of the Flowers (" Notre Dame des Fleurs ") is the debut novel of French ___MASK77___ Jean Genet , first published in 1943 . The free - flowing , poetic novel is a largely autobiographical account of a man ' s journey through the Parisian underworld . The characters are drawn after their real - ___MASK57___ counterparts , who are mostly homosexuals living on the fringes of society . New German Cinema is a period in German cinema which lasted from the late 1960s into the 1980s . It saw the emergence of a new generation of directors . Working with low budgets , and influenced by the French New Wave , such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Werner Herzog , Alexander Kluge , Harun Farocki , Volker Schlöndorff , Helma Sanders - Brahms , Hans - Jürgen Syberberg , Margarethe von Trotta and Wim Wenders made names for themselves and produced a number of ' small ' motion pictures that caught the attention of ___MASK85___ house audiences , and enabled these directors ( particularly Wenders and Schlöndorff ) to create better - financed productions which were backed by the big US studios . The Thief ' s Journal (" Journal du voleur ") is perhaps Jean Genet ' s most famous work . It is a part - fact , part - ___MASK84___ autobiography that charts the author ' s progress through Europe in a curiously depoliticized 1930s , wearing nothing but rags and enduring ___MASK100___ , contempt , fatigue and vice . Spain , Italy , Austria , Czechoslovakia , Poland , Nazi Germany , Belgium ... everywhere is the same : bars , dives , flop - houses ; robbery , prison and expulsion .