The Stationmaster's Wife Movie Review 1977

In Germay's Weimar Republic a provincial stationmaster's wife expresses her boredom with her pleasant ineffectual husband by having numerous meaningless affairs. Meant to invoke postwar German dread and the fake bourgeois morality which covered political and social resentments. Originally shown as a 200-minute miniseries for German TV; subtitled.

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Available on VHS
Running time 111 minutes.
Originally from German.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Germany, Sex & Sexuality, Period Piece: 1920s, Marriage

Screenplay

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast

Elisabeth Trissenaar, Kurt Raab, Gustal Bayrhammer, Bernard Helfrich, Udo Kier, Volker Spengler

Cinematography

Michael Ballhaus

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Music

Peer Raben