The Marriage of Maria Braun (German: Die Ehe der Maria Braun) is a 1979 West German film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It was nominated for the 1980 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film. The film is the first in Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, followed by Veronika Voss (BRD 2) and Lola (BRD 3).
During an Allied bombing raid on Berlin, in the later stages of World War II, a picture of Adolf Hitler is blown off a wall. Amidst the chaos, prota...
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The Marriage of Maria Braun (German: Die Ehe der Maria Braun) is a 1979 West German film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It was nominated for the 1980 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film. The film is the first in Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, followed by Veronika Voss (BRD 2) and Lola (BRD 3).
During an Allied bombing raid on Berlin, in the later stages of World War II, a picture of Adolf Hitler is blown off a wall. Amidst the chaos, protagonist Maria (Schygulla) is being married to Hermann Braun in a rushed ceremony where Maria has to track down the official needed to sign their marriage certificate. After only "half a day and a whole night" together, Hermann returns to the front.
After the end of the war, Maria and her friend Betti (Elisabeth Trissenaar) visit the train station where women go to seek word of their soldier husbands, but Betti's husband returns home with news that Hermann has been killed. The film shows the daily privations and black market commodity exchanges...
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