The Marriage of Maria Braun

1979 · 2 hr 0 min · R

Drama

Directors

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Actors

Hanna Schygulla
Klaus Löwitsch
Ivan Desny

Summary

Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.

More about this movie

This movie follows the life of a young German woman, married to a soldier in the waning days of WWII. Fassbinder has tried to show the gritty life after the end of WWII and the turmoil of the people trapped in its wake.

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