Martha (1974)
- Directed by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Genre
- drama film, horror film, thriller film
- Country
- West Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 70 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A woman marries a seemingly charming man after her father dies. Her new husband slowly and methodically isolates and torments her.
tenseclaustrophobicbleakdarkly comicpsychologically intenseslow-burnunsettlingcold
What happens
Martha is a 1974 drama film made for West German television directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It features Margit Carstensen in the title role with Karlheinz Böhm as her abusive husband. It is one of the earliest of Fassbinder's films to be influenced by the American work of Douglas Sirk. The plot was loosely based on the short story For the Rest of Her Life by Cornell Woolrich. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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