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Synopsis: A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Rome when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts rather indifferently and returns home to her highly-strung mother and begins to new era of her life taking care of a completely ungrateful and insulting mother (declining an offer of marriage from her boss). After a barrage of verbal abuse and offensive remarks from her mother who see's her as an 'ugly old spinster' she accepts a proposal of marriage from an equally insulting and disrespectful man, Helmuth. They honeymoon in Italy. While there Helmuth resigns Martha from the job that she loves, sends her mother to a mental institution, and lets his wife get horribly burnt in the sun while sleeping, then painfully rapes her. Martha gets back to Germany to find that Helmuth has rented them a new house, and she will not be able to return to her old home even to collect any of her things, which he says must be left behind her. At
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Production: Pro-ject Filmproduktion
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
Year:
1974
116 min
197 Views


He wants to kill me!

What's the matter with you, Martha?

You've got to help me! | He wants to kill me.

He brought me a present. | He wants to kill me.

Please come!

Okay...we'll go for a drive.

I'll get the car keys.

What's up?

Pull yourself together!

He's following us.

He said his car had broken down.

Drive faster!

My God, he's drawing nearer. Faster!

He's coming! Don't slow down! | Don't let him catch me!

Where am I?

In the hospital, Martha.

The hospital?

And why?

You had an accident...

in the car of a certain Mr. Kaiser.

Did anything happen...

to him?

Mr. Kaiser's dead.

My God! It's all my fault.

And what about me?

You can tell me the truth. I can take it.

You're paralyzed for life.

My God!

I'll manage. | I can still work with my hands.

I'll manage.

But Martha, you've got Helmut.

He's not a person to leave others | in the lurch.

He was sitting the whole time | by your bed.

He loves you.

No, no! Help me!

Mama, mama, mama!

Come in.

A visitor for you.

Yes.

-Martha, Helmut's here. | -Let her be.

She has to come to terms | with her new life.

Give her time.

Martha...

my dearest.

You can take her home soon. | She's doing well.

That's good. I felt so alone at home.

Mrs. Salomon, you're going home. | Aren't you pleased?

Yes, nurse, of course I'm pleased.

Chin up, Martha, | and make a complete recovery!

Complete?

When God makes a decision, | man can't change it.

Goodbye.

Take care, old boy.

-Goodbye, Mr. Salomon. | -I've got something for you.

Thank you.

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Cornell Woolrich

Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote using the name Cornell Woolrich, and sometimes the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler. A check of film titles reveals that more film noir screenplays were adapted from works by Woolrich than any other crime novelist, and many of his stories were adapted during the 1940s for Suspense and other dramatic radio programs. more…

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