Peter Märthesheimer

Highlighted works

• Martha

  This ruthless dissection of a marriage is like Douglas Sirk on steroids.

• Angst vor der Angst

  Overcome by anxiety, a middle-class wife and mother struggles to conform.

• ACHT STUNDEN SIND KEIN TAG

  Fassbinder’s controversial five-part TV soap opera.

• Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt

  Chilling drama based on a real-life interview with a convicted murderer.

• WELT AM DRAHT

  Fassbinder’s two-part TV sci-fi anticipates both Blade Runner and The Matrix.

• Despair

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first film in English was brilliantly adapted by Tom Stoppard from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel set in 1930s Berlin.

• Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss

  A young sports journalist meets an ageing movie star in this eerie vision of 1950s Germany.

• Lola

  Fantastically vulgar update of The Blue Angel (1930) set in late 1950s West Germany.

• Die Ehe der Maria Braun

  Hanna Schygulla gives a star performance in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film, as a German woman who struggles to rebuild her life after the Second World War.