Compilation/Packaged Set: The Fassbinder Collection II
Barcode 69502674621
Release Date 2006
Purchase Date 10/13/2016
Purchase Price $14.50
Store Amazon.com - OffWorld Cinema
Condition New
Volume II includes two films: In a Year with 13 Moons, and Martha.

Martha
Fantoma Films (1974)
Drama, Foreign, Thriller
In Collection
#730
7*
Seen ItYes
(10/24/2016 Home)
695026704621
IMDB   7.5
116 mins Germany / German
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Volker Spengler Erwin/Elvira Weishaupt
Ingrid Caven Die rote Zora
Gottfried John Anton Saitz
Elisabeth Trissenaar Irene Weishaupt
Eva Mattes Marie-Ann Weishaupt
Gunther Kaufmann J. Smolik, Chauffeur
Lilo Pempeit Schwester Gudrun
Isolde Barth Sybille
Karl Scheydt Christoph Hacker
Walter Bockmayer Seelenfrieda
Peter Kollek Saeufer
Bob Dorsay Selbstmörder
Gerhard Zwerenz Burghard Hauser, Schriftsteller
Volker Spengler Erwin
Gunther Kaufmann J. Smolik / Chauffeur
Gerhard Zwerenz Burghard Hauser / Schriftsteller
Janez Bermez Oskar Pleitgen
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Self
Günther Holzapfel Angestellter H. H. Brei
Ursula Lillig Putzfrau
Augusto Pinochet Self
Director/Choreographer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Producer Peter Märthesheimer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer/Composer Rainer Werner Fassbinder (screenplay)
Cornell Woolrich
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cinematography Michael Ballhaus
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Music Peer Raben


Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher named Erwin, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Edition Details
Distributor Fantoma Films
Release Date 1973
Screen Ratio Widescreen (1.78:1)
Audio Tracks SUB [English]
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
Personal Details
Purchase Date 10/13/2016
Location Personal Library - Fassbinder Collection
Owner Deitz
Store Amazon.com
Links + Review: Jim Clark
± Review: NY Times
Clip: at Vemo
Martha at Core for Movies
IMDB
TheMovieDb.org
In A Year With 13 Moons at Core for Movies
TheMovieDb.org
IMDB

Notes
Martha was originally produced as a television drama, but certainly NOT a typical made for television C movie -- It is an extraordinarily well crafted study of spousal abuse, skillfully drawing us in and taking us to a dark place -- Fassbinder then leaves us to sort it all out -- Much credit to Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus for capturing Fassbinder's vision with a masterful execution