The Stationmaster's Wife
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Actor: Bernhard Helfrich, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Kurt Raab, Volker SpenglerDirector: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Yorker Video
Movie Reviews of The Stationmaster's Wife
Movie Review: The scandal, the pity and the failure!
Summary: 5 Stars
No other German filmmaker assumed the life with such Dionysian intensity and created such original scripts around the complex affective feminine universe like him. The women were for R.W.F., the central nucleus and the men simple puppets turning around her, like untiring planets over and over falling in love with them but being incapable to understand their anguishes and inner contradictions.
The station master's wife is an acerbic story, recreated on the Geramny of the twenties but based on the emblematic "Madame Bavary" . In this time, the dramatis personae turns around a bore man Bolweiser, chief commander of a station railroad who is happily married Hanni, until the existential boredom appears. She is an alluring woman who needs much affection. He is a cold and distant human being, who only compliments her around the delicious food and his unstoppable thirst of animal love, lack of tender charm.
She is owner of an enviable inheritance, and so she becomes pawnbroker of Merkl, who eventually will seduce her. The tragic thread of the happenings will be involving us more and more in this dark labyrinth of untamed passions, desperation, blame, affective blackmail and double cross that eventually will lead him to become a living wreck.
A fine and zealously photographed film, with bites of comedy at the first half of the film and a devastating tragedy at the end.
A remarkable work into the vast and audacious artistic trajectory of this unforgettable and inimitable icon of the cinema.
Summary of The Stationmaster's Wife
The Stationmaster's Wife, a drama of post-WWI Bavaria based on Oskar Maria Graf's novel Bolweiser, was originally presented as a three-hour-plus event for German television. In preparing his theatrical cut, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder shaved away the subplots and supporting characters to focus tightly on the story of railway stationmaster Bolweiser (Kurt Raab) and his philandering wife Hanni (Elisabeth Trissenaar). Set in late-1920s Bavaria, Bolweiser is a Nazi party man surrounded by grotesque, toadying underlings at the station but is pathetically servile to his increasingly frustrated, unhappy wife. Disgusted by her weak-willed husband, she finds passion in the arms of the butcher. Bolweiser ignores the town gossip and even perjures himself to defend his wife in a trial--an act which later dooms him. Exquisitely photographed (by Michael Balhaus) and beautifully designed, Fassbinder's lush, romantic style suffuses his caustic portrait of the self-destructive Bolweiser (a painfully perfect performance by Raab), and the petty small-town citizens who seal his fate. Even as Bolweiser sinks to the depths of self-pity, Fassbinder's gorgeous, shimmering canvas makes the small-minded doings look so much more tawdry. --Sean AxmakerArt House & International DVD Video
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