Tuesday Filmscreening Die Ehe der Maria Braun/ The Marriage of Maria Braun
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1978) | Original German version with English subtitles, colour, 120 min.
The story takes place in Germany during reconstruction after World War II. Maria Braun manages to climb the social ladder but must pay an excessive price for her professional success. The first film in Fassbinder’s eclectic and critical FRG trilogy ends fatally, just as Germany wins the 1954 World Cup.
The picture was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and won 5 German Academy Awards. The film was one of the more successful works of Fassbinder and shaped the image of the New German Cinema in foreign countries.
Goethe-Institut | Kiyovu
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