“It will take you into a surreal world of passion and sexuality, further than most would dare to go.”
A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Sam Waynberg
Dieter Schidor
Burkhard Driest
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Josef Vavra
Peer Raben
Brad Davis
Querelle
Franco Nero
Lieutenant Seblon
Jeanne Moreau
Lysiane
Laurent Malet
Roger Bataille
Hanno Pöschl
Robert / Gil
Günther Kaufmann
Nono
Burkhard Driest
Mario
Roger Fritz
Marcellin
Dieter Schidor
Vic Rivette
Natja Brunckhorst
Paulette
Robert van Ackeren
Drunk legionnaire
Werner Asam
Worker
... and 12 more
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Brad Davis (sprayed into his tight white canvas trousers!) is the eponymous sailor, enticed into a seamy life when their ship docks in Brest. This proves to be a port where homosexuality is the currency of the day. The losing roll of the dice could cost you more than a few shekels. This is all somet...
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