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Apr 24, 2005 · She is so loyal to her husband of less than a day that she kills for him, and so pitiless to her lover of many years that she drives him to death. All the time she is keeping score: nylons and cigarettes at first, then a good job, fashionable clothes, a house in the suburbs, expensive restaurants.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's biggest international box-office success, The Marriage of Maria Braun is a heartbreaking study of a woman picking herself up from the ruins of her own life, as well as a pointed metaphorical attack on a society determined to forget its past.
The only thing missing is a hand being doused in hot coffee and the Babs herself, Barbara Stanwyck, but Hanna Schygulla is a strong and capable leading lady in her own right. The film opens - very memorably - with Maria Braun (Schygulla) getting married right as war breaks out.
The Marriage of Maria Braun: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, Gisela Uhlen. Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war.
Near the end of World War II, Maria (Hanna Schygulla) marries Hermann (Klaus Lowitsch), who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She ...
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Aug 27, 2015 · A female survivor of World War II Germany incorporates seduction and self-preservation in order to stay alive. Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Oct 14, 1979 · Hermann Braun (Klaus Lowitsch), a private in the German Army, and his pretty young fiancée Maria (Hanna Schygulla), are exchanging their vows in a registrar's office when the air raid becomes...
