The Stationmaster's Wife

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| director = Rainer Werner Fassbinder

| writer =

| screenplay = Rainer Werner Fassbinder

| based_on = {{Based on|Bolwieser: The Novel of a Husband|Oskar Maria Graf}}

| producer = {{Unbulleted list|Herbert Knopp|Willi Segler}}

| starring = {{Unbulleted list|Elisabeth Trissenaar|Kurt Raab|Udo Kier|Volker Spengler|Gottfried John}}

| narrator =

| cinematography = Michael Ballhaus

| editor = {{Unbulleted list|Rainer Werner Fassbinder|Juliane Lorenz|Ila von Hasperg}}

| music = Peer Raben

| company = {{Unbulleted list|Bavaria Atelier|Bavaria Film}}

| released = {{Start date|1977|07|31|df=y}}

| runtime = 201 minutes

| country = West Germany

| language = German

| budget = DEM 1.8 million

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The Stationmaster's Wife ({{langx|de|Bolwieser}}) is a 1977 German television serial directed and edited by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It was made for German television and originally aired in 1973 as a two-part miniseries. It was based on the 1931 novel Bolwieser: The Novel of a Husband by Oskar Maria Graf.

The plot revolves around railway station master Xaver Ferdinand Maria Bolwieser, who is unwittingly cuckolded by the town butcher and a hairdresser. Critic Vincent Canby, in his 1982 New York Times review, said the story, which is set in the fictional Bavarian town of Werburg in the 1920s, was reminiscent of Madame Bovary.{{cite web |last1=Canby |first1=Vincent |title=FASSBINDER'S 'STATIONMASTER'S WIFE' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/25/movies/fassbinder-s-stationmaster-s-wife.html |work=New York Times |access-date=15 January 2023}}

The 1983 theatrical release was 90 minutes shorter than the 201 minute TV version. The theatrical cut had been finalized and approved in 1977, but the release was postponed due to legal and commercial reasons.{{cite web |title=The Stationmaster's Wife |url=https://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-stationmasters-wife/ |website=Film at Lincoln Center |publisher=Lincoln Center |access-date=14 January 2023}}