The film is okay, not outstanding. It helps that Uschi Obermaier plays the female lead and that the strange (conspiratorial) plot has some period color that I like.

To avoid any kind of spoilers, I can only tell you about the cars in this film ... they are beautiful and waterproof ... the nightclubs ... they are even better than the cars.

Only the girls' apartment, I have some problems with that. This strange building is a bit shabby like a mafioso's den. Not at all like one should imagine the accommodation of successful gals in the upcoming Olympic city.

If you are looking for other (maybe more realistic) German feminist-expressionistic cinema, I rather recommend "Strohfeuer" aka "A Free Woman" by Volker Schlöndorff.

After catching the wonderful rough and ready German crime flick Battle of the Godfathers (1973) (which I've reviewed) a few years ago,a fellow IMDber told me about another German crime flick he had recently seen and enjoyed. Trying to find the title for a number of years,I was pleased to learn that a DVD seller had tracked it down,which led to me at last seeing the red sun set.

View on the film:

Holding back from the free-wheeling shoot-outs which made the Italian Crime genre so lively, (with a clever use of muffled sound effects for newspaper being used as a silencer) director Rudolf Thome & cinematographer Bernd Fiedler take aim with a off-beat, casual hippie atmosphere, with the ladies sorting out the next supply not in a seedy den, but a "happening" house. Swinging very much to the sounds of the 60's,Thome keeps the flick refreshingly playful by breaking the Crime tunes with splashes of kitsch "free love" and from out of left-field brightly coloured partying. Keeping to the beat of Thome's style, the screenplay by Max Zihlmann wraps Thomas (played by a fittingly meek Marquard Bohm) and his relationships with the sexy women in a peculiar hazy mood, which subtly works as the women reveal to Thomas why they all stay somewhat disconnected in their romantic encounters, as they load up when the red sun sets.

Thomas (Marquard Bohm) gets a ride to Munich where he finds his ex-girlfriend Peggy (counterculture icon and model Uschi Obermaier) who takes him in. In her flat he finds Peggy and her roommates have a commune-like lifestyle where they take a male lover and murder them within five days so that they never fall in love. Does Thomas realize that in time?

Directed by Rudolf Thome and written by Max Zihlmann, the girls all seem rather nice, you know, other than the fact that they murder men. They all seem to genuinely like Thomas, but when you have a manifesto, you have to follow it or it's not a manifesto.

This is definitely more style than substance but that's not a complaint. Plus. The soundtrack has the Small Faces and The Nice on it, as well as "Adagio in G Minor" by Remo Giazotto, which also shows up in Rollerball and Space: 1999.

Obermaier is a dream and has a presence that you wish showed up in more than just that handful of movies that she was in. Her flatmates are played by Diana Körner, who was memorable in a small role in Barry Lyndon, Sylvia Kekulé and Gaby Go.

I really have no idea what category this is, but whatever it is, I want more.