The Marriage of Maria Braun

1979 [GERMAN]

Action / Drama / Romance

19
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 90% · 27 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 90% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.7/10 10 16061 16.1K

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Plot summary

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Photo
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Top cast

Claus Holm Photo
Claus Holm as Doctor
Hanna Schygulla Photo
Hanna Schygulla as Maria Braun
Peter Berling Photo
Peter Berling as Bronski
Günter Lamprecht Photo
Günter Lamprecht as Hans Wetzel
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1.08 GB
1204*720
German 2.0
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23.976 fps
2 hr 0 min
Seeds 1
2.01 GB
1792*1072
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
23.976 fps
2 hr 0 min
Seeds 18

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ricardojorgeramalho 8 / 10

Germany Reborn

Maria Braun's marriage is a very successful metaphor for post-war Germany, for the economic miracle played by Adenauer, himself heard several times in the film, in his speeches appealing to pride in German economic reconstruction.In the rubble of the Second World War, Maria/Germany survives, between a tenuous hope of returning to the lost past and the agony of a miserable and dishonorable present.But the defeated have no right to shame. It is up to them to rebuild the future in the bed of the victors, until they learn to live without them, more than autonomously, as new victorious powers, taking the place of those who humiliated them. In life, in the economy or even in football (Fassbinder coincides the narrative climax with the 1952 World Cup final, in which Germany became champion, for the first time in the history of the competition, thus using yet another metaphor for German reconstruction).After the victory is complete, the honor is washed away, life ends and it is time to give way to others, to the future, which must not repeat the mistakes of the past.A bold message and a powerful performance by Hanna Schygullla.Fassbinder at his best.
Reviewed by Tin_ear 9 / 10

Rainer Fassbinder at his peak

Allegory for postwar Germany...examination of modernist female sexuality...Marxist critique of human labor under capitalism...yada, yada. I won't bore you with that prattle. Which isn't to say those idea weren't baked into the movie or that you're wrong to see the movie as deeply philosophical. But it certainly isn't necessary to enjoying the movie.The Marriage of Maria Braun is a great film without needing to be dissected as some dull academic thesis paper. Maria depicted quite spectacularly by Hanna Schygulla, she plays a character who I can't really decide is tragic or the real "villain." This is one of those weird films where every character is so endearing and well written that it's painful to see things go so off the rails for them.Ending was a little obvious, and I could argue it was too dumb for the rest of the movie, but overall an amazing production.
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