The Niklashausen Journey is one of Fassbinder’s most openly experimental films, combining characters in modern dress with others in medieval costumes, rural idylls and contemporary rock concerts, in order to tell the story of a small revolution surrounding a shepherd who claims to have been visited by the Virgin Mary. Parallels are drawn between the religious fervour of earlier centuries with socialist groups attempting to upset the authorities.
The way in which this story is told can be a little alienating in its lack of conventional narrative but the point is sufficiently communicated to make this Fassbinder’s most explicitly political film.
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