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A completely wrong approach to the Red Sun would be a discussion of why the four beautiful women in Rudolf Thome's film kill men? They just do it because "they deserve it". The riffraff. Every man who stays longer than five days in their flat is killed. Shot, drowned or run over. The Red Sun came to the cinema in 1970 and it would now be appropriate to regard the work as a feminist film. But I think that Rudolf Thome has dealt with Greek antiquity and enjoys watching Hollywood action films. As in the Greek tragedy, a young man (Thomas, who is played by Marquard Bohm and looks like a mod) appears and starts a love affair with the leader of the girls' troupe, Peggy, of all people (communicator Uschi Obermeier). Recovered for this cross between failure and macho, Peggy has a weakness. But that doesn't help either, because before the red sun rises at Lake Starnberg, the couple will have shot each other. Because it looks so beautiful like Hollywood. Or after a Greek tragedy. Bohm and Obermeier also played together in Thome's first film. In Red Sun they are definitely the most glamorous German cinema couple - a shame that there are no more films with the two of them! Probably no one but Bohm could present the abstruse dialogue lines from the Red Sun like this: "Work that contradicts one's own rhythm of life can have devastating consequences for the entire organism". She said: "You are lazy". Anyone who has seen the film as often as I have can also take a look at what happens behind the scenes. Rote Sonne was shot in Munich in 1969 and during the outdoor shoots you hardly see any cars other than VW Beetles. The apartment in which the killer women live could simply be taken over. The colorful walls, they were already like that. In the shared flat there is also a lively exchange of beds: everyone sleeps where there is free space. Rudolf Thome is a talkative man and there is a lot to report, especially about the shooting of Rote Sonne. He has illustrated this in the Tilsitter Lichtspiele. Uschi Obermeier was never allowed to leave the commune for more than three days and therefore had to be constantly transported from Munich to West Berlin. Marquard Bohm actually lived his role; his suit tells its own story in the film. The red sun was filmed chronologically and with every scene his suit becomes more and more dingy. Bohm also wore it privately after the shooting and went to parties with it. As early as the end of the 60s, a distinction was made in Germany between the "worthy" films of the film publisher Filmverlag der Autoren and those that don't get any money. Red sun belonged to the latter kind. Thome belonged to the so-called "Munich Group", which signed their own Oberhausen Manifesto to distinguish themselves from the former. Rote Sonne loves the role models from Hollywood and France, gunfights and chases. German "reality" is not so important to the film. So here comes one of the rare German movies in which the actors seem like stars, everything seems artificial and above all really sexy! So real!