Martha
One of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first forays into the classic melodrama style of his hero Douglas Sirk is a brilliantly perverse, operatically stylized portrait of a woman (Margit Carstensen) caught in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband (Karlheinz Böhm), whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her. Loosely based on a story by pulp-fiction master Cornell Woolrich, MARTHA finds Fassbinder tearing the institution of marriage to shreds with savage, subversive glee.
Starring Karlheinz Böhm, Margit Carstensen, Barbara Valentin, Peter Chatel, Gisela Fackeldey, Adrian Hoven, Ortrud Beginnen, Günter Lamprecht, Rudolf Lenz, Elma Karlowa
Watch "Martha" on Criterion Channel released in 1974. It's a drama and thriller movie, and has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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