Martha (1974)
With Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin, Ingrid Caven, Peter Chatel, Kurt Raab, Gisela Fackeldey, Adrian Hoven
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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.
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