Cinema & Couch: TAXI DRIVER

TAXI DRIVER

USA 1976. Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel. 113 mins. DCP. OV with German subtitles.

The loner taxi driver and Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle moves restlessly through New York at night. Equally fascinated and repelled by the city, he becomes more and more obsessed with feeling the need to do something about the dirt and lowliness of his environment. The psychological study describes the individual outbreak of violence against the background of a general climate of indifference and was the big breakthrough for Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader and Robert De Niro.

Film Series Cinema & Couch
Together with the Frankfurt Psychoanalytical Institute, the DFF organises monthly screenings of films that will be looked at from both a film critical as well as a psychoanalytical point of view. The current series focuses on the topic of “Identity”.