Over the past quarter-century Regina Ziegler has collaborated with Wolf Gremm on 5 productions, half of which were cinema-related. His "I Thought I Was Dead" (1973), their mutual debut as producer and director, sketched the painful everyday of a adapted from a seminal Erich Kästner novel and nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category, effectively probed the social and political climate of the 1930s in Germany. But it was Wolf Gremm's close relationship with Rainer Werner Fassbinder that resulted in one of the cult film in the New German Cinema movement: "Kamikaze" 1989 (198 ), starring Rainer and directed by Wolf. A skillfully constructed personal film, "Kamikaze" 1989 is based on Swedish writer Per Wahlö's thriller and stars Fassbinder as a police detective in his last acting role. "It suggests a curious but not surprising blend of influences," wrote critic Vincent Canby, "including Fassbinder's films, Godard's Alphaville, Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, and Louis Feuillade's virtually endless silent serial Les Vampyres." (New York Times).