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The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Marriage of Maria Braun (German: Die Ehe der Maria Braun) is a 1979 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film stars Hanna Schygulla as Maria, who marries German soldier Hermann Braun during World War II. The couple spend over a decade apart due to forces largely beyond Maria's control. To survive in postwar Germany, Maria becomes a sex worker, a wealthy industrialist's mistress, and eventually a ruthless capitalist during the German economic miracle, while still asserting her loyalty to Hermann.
The Marriage of Maria Braun was one of Fassbinder's more successful works and shaped the image of the New German Cinema. It has also been acclaimed by many critics as one of Fassbinder's most profound films. It is the first installment of his BRD Trilogy, followed by Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982).
During an Allied bombing raid in 1943, Maria Berger and Hermann Braun get married. The next day, Hermann returns to the Eastern front. When the war ends, Maria is told that Hermann died. She clings to his memory.
The war devastates Germany's economy. To support herself and her family, Maria takes a job in a seedy underground bar for Allied soldiers. Her boss asks her for a doctor's medical certificate, tipping off her longtime doctor that the job involves sex work. Due to the psychological strain of seeing his female patients forced into sex work, the doctor becomes a morphine addict.
Maria starts a relationship with Bill, a Black American soldier she meets at the bar. Although Maria's main motive is to get Bill to financially support her family, and she refuses to marry him out of devotion to Hermann, they develop a mutual affection, and she gets pregnant. Hermann unexpectedly returns from a Soviet POW camp and catches Bill in bed with Maria. Maria rushes to him, but he coldly slaps her. Bill and Hermann start fighting. To break up the brawl, Maria smashes a beer bottle over Bill's head, killing him. Hermann takes the fall for Maria and is sent to prison, leaving Maria alone again. Maria and Bill's child is stillborn.
On the train home from her doctor, after seducing a train conductor to get into a first-class train car, Maria charms a wealthy passenger, textile industrialist Karl Oswald. Oswald offers Maria a job as his personal advisor.
Back in her apartment, Maria tells her mother and roommates that she now needs to move into her own apartment. In voiceover, Konrad Adenauer publicly says that West Germany will not rearm.
At the prison, Maria tells Herman about taking the job with Oswald so she can build a house for the two of them, promising Hermann, "My time's just beginning."
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Marriage of Maria Braun (German: Die Ehe der Maria Braun) is a 1979 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film stars Hanna Schygulla as Maria, who marries German soldier Hermann Braun during World War II. The couple spend over a decade apart due to forces largely beyond Maria's control. To survive in postwar Germany, Maria becomes a sex worker, a wealthy industrialist's mistress, and eventually a ruthless capitalist during the German economic miracle, while still asserting her loyalty to Hermann.
The Marriage of Maria Braun was one of Fassbinder's more successful works and shaped the image of the New German Cinema. It has also been acclaimed by many critics as one of Fassbinder's most profound films. It is the first installment of his BRD Trilogy, followed by Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982).
During an Allied bombing raid in 1943, Maria Berger and Hermann Braun get married. The next day, Hermann returns to the Eastern front. When the war ends, Maria is told that Hermann died. She clings to his memory.
The war devastates Germany's economy. To support herself and her family, Maria takes a job in a seedy underground bar for Allied soldiers. Her boss asks her for a doctor's medical certificate, tipping off her longtime doctor that the job involves sex work. Due to the psychological strain of seeing his female patients forced into sex work, the doctor becomes a morphine addict.
Maria starts a relationship with Bill, a Black American soldier she meets at the bar. Although Maria's main motive is to get Bill to financially support her family, and she refuses to marry him out of devotion to Hermann, they develop a mutual affection, and she gets pregnant. Hermann unexpectedly returns from a Soviet POW camp and catches Bill in bed with Maria. Maria rushes to him, but he coldly slaps her. Bill and Hermann start fighting. To break up the brawl, Maria smashes a beer bottle over Bill's head, killing him. Hermann takes the fall for Maria and is sent to prison, leaving Maria alone again. Maria and Bill's child is stillborn.
On the train home from her doctor, after seducing a train conductor to get into a first-class train car, Maria charms a wealthy passenger, textile industrialist Karl Oswald. Oswald offers Maria a job as his personal advisor.
Back in her apartment, Maria tells her mother and roommates that she now needs to move into her own apartment. In voiceover, Konrad Adenauer publicly says that West Germany will not rearm.
At the prison, Maria tells Herman about taking the job with Oswald so she can build a house for the two of them, promising Hermann, "My time's just beginning."