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GERMANY · 1978
The Marriage of Maria Braun
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Synopsis
In Thomas Ostermeier's stage version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film, Maria 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, she 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.
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Fassbinder inherited Douglas Sirk’s melodramatic impulse and pushed it into a much more political, Brechtian, and self-conscious direction, as in The Marriage of Maria Braun or Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. His films had a huge impact on me.
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