Gods of the Plague (All Region DVD) 1970 Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
PSEUDONYM: Franz Walsch uses the pseudonym Franz Biberkopf. The name of the title character of Alfred Döblin's famous novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz". Fassbinder would later adapt this to a TV-miniseries later in his career.