A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth-century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends.
Lilo Pempeit
Mother

Kurt Raab
Zimmerman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rumpf

Walter Sedlmayr
Pastor Markus