The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) (Die Ehe der Maria Braun)

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Directed by

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Hanna Schygulla
Maria Braun

Klaus Löwitsch
Hermann Braun

Ivan Desny
Karl Oswald

Gisela Uhlen
Mother

Elisabeth Trissenaar
Betti Klenze

Gottfried John
Willi Klenze

Hark Bohm
Senkenberg

George Eagles
Bill

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Pea Fröhlich
(screenplay) and

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
(idea)

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Description: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun is one of the finest movies this prolific German director has made. It is the story of a shrewd and ambitious woman who uses her sexual gifts as a means of achieving success. While her husband (Klaus Lowitsch) is off to war and presumed killed in action, Maria takes up with a black G.I. (George Byrd). She murders the American when her husband returns. He goes to prison in her stead. Maria then enters into a business venture with a rich entrepreneur and rises to power in the company before sleeping with him. Hanna Schygulla's performance as Maria Braun is a multilayered tr ... (more)

Release date: 23 March 1979
UPC: 715515014427

Tags: Drama (7), German (7), Marriage (6), Greed (4), Suicide (4), Germany (4), Prostitution (4), Death (3), 1970s (3), Fascism (3), Post War (3), Prisoner (3), Denial (3), Bar (2), Prison (2), Capitalism (2), Wedding (2), Male Nudity (2), Female Nudity (2)

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" The downfall of a beautiful woman. In a way shows how closely love is related to hate and destruction. My biggest problem was with how contrived/conveniently things happen to push the plot in this film of cynicism and post war striving for survival. For example, we could all fathom the possibility of the husband coming back to life but to cement this fact we are met with a convenient death of the black soldier and the black baby (angel). Cheap outs, to not have to tackle more serious issues is "

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"Muutaman huonon kokemuksen jälkeen olen vältellyt Fassbinderia ja tässä sitä taas ollaan. Saksan nousu toisen maailmanpalon tuhkasta ja häpeästä kiteytyy tunteettomaan, sosiopaattiseen Schygullaan joka ui liiveissä raunioista pohataksi natsimies vankilassa vartoomassa. Kivoa kuvia, hauskoja hetkiä, toimiva kokonaisuus. Mutta, mutta löytyy. Jokin ei vain natsaa."