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Bookmark this pageBolwieser (1977)
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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From Time Out Film Guide
Marvellous performance from Trissenaar - justifiably compared to Garbo and Dietrich - as the enigmatically errant wife of a provincial stationmaster, doting but hardly of the stallion breed. In mood, something of a cross between Fear of Fear and Chinese Roulette as Fassbinder continues his Sirkian task of exploring the cheerless grey world of petit bourgeois morality (the time is just after the First World War), highlighting a series of melodramatic sexual betrayals in order to dissect (with surprising compassion) the tissue of lies and deceptions that makes them inevitable while simultaneously keeping society going (towards the fascism that clearly lies just ahead). A feature drawn from the original two-part, 200-minute TV film.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Kurt Raab, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Bernhard Helfrich, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Udo Kier full cast
Duration: 111 mins
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