Filme von Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Bolwieser (TV) (The Station Master’s Wife; TV version)

Bolwieser (Kurt Raab), stationmaster in a little Bavarian town in the 1920s, feels that with his marriage to Hanni (Elisabeth Trissenaar), daughter of a brewery owner, he has achieved happiness and good social standing. But the entire city knows that Hanni turned to the tavern owner Merkl (Bernhard Helfrich) long ago. When Bolwieser hears about the rumor, Hanni and Merkl report the worst “slanderers.” He even commits perjury in order not to lose his wife. However, he is unable to live without the illusion of his idyllic marriage. The human tragedy takes its course: Bolwieser begins to drink, his wife leaves him for the hairdresser (Udo Kier), and the stationmaster is even sentenced to jail because of perjury. Hanni files for divorce.

Weltvertrieb
Bavaria Media

Verleih (D)
Bavaria Media

Produktionsjahr
1976/77
Regie
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Buch
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, after Oskar Maria Graf’s novel Die Ehe des Herrn Bolwieser.
Kamera
Michael Ballhaus
Musik
Peer Raben
Schnitt
Ila von Hasperg, Juliane Lorenz; for the theatrical version also Franz Walsch (i. e. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Ausstattung
Kurt Raab, Nico Kehrhan
Besetzung
Kurt Raab (Xaver Ferdinand Maria Bolwieser, stationmaster) Elisabeth Trissenaar (Hanni) Bernhard Helfrich (Frank Merkl, butcher and tavern owner) Udo Kier (Schafftaler, hairdresser) Volker Spengler (Mangst, secretary) Armin Meier (Scherber, candidate) Karl-Heinz von Hassel (Senior Forrester Windegger) Gustl Bayrhammer (Neidhart, Hanni’s father) Maria Singer (Frau Neidhart) Willi Harlander (Stempflinger) Hannes Kaetner (Lederer) Gusti Kreissl (Frau Lederer) Helmut Alimonta (Hartmannseder) Peter Kern (Treuberger) Gottfried John (Finkelberger, divorce lawyer) Gerhard Zwerenz (ferryman) Helmut Petigk (pub owner) Sonja Neudorfer (pub owner’s wife) Monika Teuber (Mariele) Nino Korda (lawyer) Hannes Gromball (district court judge) Alexander Allerson (chairman) Manfred Gunther (defense lawyer) Roland Henschke (judge in Werburg) Adolph Gruber (accused farmer) Doris Mattes (witness)
Produktion
Bavaria Atelier (commissioned by ZDF)
Format
16 mm, Color, Part 1: 104 min.; Part 2: 96 min.; theatrical version: blown up to 35 mm, 112 min.