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The Stationmaster's Wife (German: Bolwieser) is a 1977 German television serial directed and edited by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It was made for German television and originally aired in 1973 as a two-part miniseries. It was based on the 1931 novel Bolwieser: The Novel of a Husband by Oskar Maria Graf.
Jul 31, 1977 · With Elisabeth Trissenaar, Kurt Raab, Bernhard Helfrich, Karl-Heinz von Hassel. Lackluster, plodding stationmaster Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town's siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.
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- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Oct 4, 2005 · by Fernando F. Croce. October 4, 2005. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Stationmaster’s Wife ’s first image sets up the template for this magnificently excruciating study of romantic degradation—frozen in embrace over the opening credits, newlyweds Xaver (Kurt Raab) and Hanni Bolwieser (Elisabeth Trissenaar) kiss and grope ardently, until ...
Sep 25, 1982 · ''The Stationmaster's Wife,'' adapted by Fassbinder from a novel by Oskar Maria Graff, is about a not especially ambitious, lowermiddle-class Emma Bovary named Hanni (Elisabeth...
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Stationmaster's Wife. A woman (Elisabeth Trissenaar) destroys her civil-servant husband (Kurt Raab) by adultery during Hitler's rise in Germany.
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Arts. Culture magazines. The Stationmaster's Wife. views 1,869,470 updated. The Stationmaster's Wife ★★ ½ 1977. In Germay's Weimar Republic a provincial stationmaster's wife expresses her boredom with her pleasant ineffectual husband by having numerous meaningless affairs.
