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The Marriage of Maria Braun

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The Marriage of Maria Braun
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R,2hrs 0min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1979
Director:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring:
Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny  ...more
Synopsis: The film that elevated German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder from domestic approbation to international acclaim, The Marriage of Maria Braun stars the director's on-and-off favorite actress Hanna Schygulla in the title role. During the allied siege of Germany in the last year of the war, Maria's new husband (Klaus Löwitsch) is shipped off to the Russian front before the marriage is consummated. As she struggles to survive wartime deprivations, Maria haunts the local train station, seeking out ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
The first of a trilogy about women in post-World War II Germany, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978) turns the melodramatic story of the titular heroine's climb up the economic ladder into a historical allegory about both the post-war German "economic miracle" and 1970s West Germany. Evoking Joan Crawford's forceful lead in Mildred Pierce (1945) and the visually stylized 1950s ... Full Review
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Hanna Schygulla
Maria Braun
Klaus Löwitsch
Hermann Braun
Ivan Desny
Oswald
Gottfried John
Willi
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