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Nora Helmer (1974)
Fassbinder's version of Ibsen's A Doll's House for television develops a radical yet scrupulous reading of the play. Stripped of sentimentality and giving Nora (Carstensen) self-assurance from the start, this studio production delivers its critique of bourgeois marriage with a force rarely matched even in the theatre. The brutal prose, harshly delivered, is complemented by the unique visual spectacle which Fassbinder manages to wring from a videotape studio. Achieving effects of lighting and framing which British TV directors have never dreamed of, he makes the oppressiveness of Nora's home as concrete as a tank-trap. Almost every scene is shot through latticework, net curtains, cut glass, ornate mirrors, so that the characters are perhaps visually obscured but always intellectually focused. All the BBC's producers of tele-classics should be chained to chairs and forced to watch it.
Updated Aug 9 2015
Cast
Irm Hermann
Lilo Pempeit
Marie
Klaus Löwitsch
Dr. Rank
Ulli Lommel
Margit Carstensen
Nora Helmer
Joachim Hansen
Torvald Helmer
Crew
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director
Henrik Ibsen
Author
Friedhelm Boehm
Art Direction
Karlhans Reuss
Producer
Günter Steinke
Cinematography
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