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The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Marriage of Maria Braun
8.3
/10
2,835 Ratings

THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN

Die Ehe der Maria Braun

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
West Germany, 1979
Drama, History

Synopsis

The Marriage of Maria Braun is the “German Hollywood film” Fassbinder had long dreamed of making. 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.

Synopsis

The Marriage of Maria Braun is the “German Hollywood film” Fassbinder had long dreamed of making. 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.

Our take

Starring Hanna Schygulla in an award-winning performance, this scandalous melodrama is a flagrant vision of what women do on the spoiled peripheries of war. Wrecking sentimental ideas of devotion, Rainer Werner Fassbinder scored his biggest box-office success with this indecently magnificent film.