Bolwieser (1977)
(The Stationmaster's Wife)
Country: GER
Technical: col 112/201m TV
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Bernhard Helfrich, Udo Kier, Armin Meier
Synopsis:
The stationmaster of a small town between the wars stores up trouble for himself by marrying the town siren, with whom he sees his status as complete. Unable to satisfy her, however, he is cuckolded by her instinctive fickleness.
Review:
Fassbinder's examination of a Germany as fixed in its sexual politics as it is by National Socialism, the stationmaster not even recognising his own latent homosexuality. The TV mini series had a number of subplots, but for most the theatrical cut will be more than enough.
(The Stationmaster's Wife)
Country: GER
Technical: col 112/201m TV
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Bernhard Helfrich, Udo Kier, Armin Meier
Synopsis:
The stationmaster of a small town between the wars stores up trouble for himself by marrying the town siren, with whom he sees his status as complete. Unable to satisfy her, however, he is cuckolded by her instinctive fickleness.
Review:
Fassbinder's examination of a Germany as fixed in its sexual politics as it is by National Socialism, the stationmaster not even recognising his own latent homosexuality. The TV mini series had a number of subplots, but for most the theatrical cut will be more than enough.
(The Stationmaster's Wife)
Country: GER
Technical: col 112/201m TV
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Bernhard Helfrich, Udo Kier, Armin Meier
Synopsis:
The stationmaster of a small town between the wars stores up trouble for himself by marrying the town siren, with whom he sees his status as complete. Unable to satisfy her, however, he is cuckolded by her instinctive fickleness.
Review:
Fassbinder's examination of a Germany as fixed in its sexual politics as it is by National Socialism, the stationmaster not even recognising his own latent homosexuality. The TV mini series had a number of subplots, but for most the theatrical cut will be more than enough.