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.

This limited edition Radiance Films blu ray includes a high definition digital transfer overseen by director Rudolf Thome; select scene commentary with Thome and Rainer Langhans, Obermaier’s boyfriend and Kommune 1 member who served as inspiration for the film and was on set for the shoot; Rote Sonne between Pop Sensibility and Social Critique, a newly produced visual essay by scholar Johannes von Moltke on Red Sun which looks at the social and cultural influences on the film and provides context for the era in which it was made; From Oberhausen to the Fall of the Wall, a visual essay by academic and programmer Margaret Deriaz tracing the development of the New German Cinema from the Oberhausen Manifesto to the fall of the Berlin wall; a reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters; a limited edition 52-page booklet featuring new writing on the film by Samm Deighan; newly translated archival letters by Wim Wenders, critic Enno Patalas and the German Film Evaluation Office on the film’s official submission; a newly translated archival interview with Rudolf Thome and full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings. You can get it from MVD.