Martha

feature film, 1974

DIRECTED BY: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Martha

CAST:
Margit Carstensen (Martha Salomon),
Karlheinz Böhm (Helmut Salomon),
Barbara Valentin (Marianne),
Peter Chatel (Kaiser),
Gisela Fackeldey (majka Heyer)

SCRIPT:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (prema priči Cornella Woolricha)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Michael Ballhaus

Synopsis:
Martha and Helmut Salomon are anything but a perfect couple. She is naďve, immature and self-centered, whereas he is selfish, possessive and sadistic. After they get married Helmut puts Martha’s mother in a mental institution and forbids Martha to continue doing the job she loves. After they return from their honeymoon he moves her into a new house without giving her the chance to take her things from the old home.

digital, color, 116 min