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Martha

Martha

1974, Movie, 1h 56min

One of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first forays into the classic melodrama style of his hero Douglas Sirk is a brilliantly perverse, operatically stylized portrait of a woman (Margit Carstensen) caught in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband (Karlheinz Böhm), whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her. Loosely based on a story by pulp-fiction master Cornell Woolrich, MARTHA finds Fassbinder tearing the institution of marriage to shreds with savage, subversive glee.

Country: Germany

Director:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast:

Michael Ballhaus,

Karlheinz Böhm

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Martha include Deliverance, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Director’s Cut), The Beguiled, Mil millones para una rubia, Don't Look Now, Army of Shadows.