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• 1974
• Germany
• 134 min
• U

• Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Written by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Theodor Fontane
• Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel

Fassbinder's adaptation of Theodor Fontane's much-filmed novel is a film of icy, stultifying and distant pleasures. Schygulla is superb as the woman married to an older man, who takes a lover out of boredom, with fatal consequences. Beautifully made and shot (in steely black and white) this is undoubtedly one of Fassbinder's more challenging films.

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