The Marriage of Maria Braun
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Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1979 / 120min / 35mm
Married in the midst of an Allied air raid and left to fend for herself after her husband goes missing on the Eastern front, Hannah Schygulla’s Maria Braun emerges from the wreckage of World War II, dusts herself off, and rides the wave of West Germany’s economic miracle to the top, first as a sex worker, then becoming the mistress and personal secretary to a powerful industrialist, and finally emerging as a ruthless business tycoon in her own right. A peerless character study of a diamond-hard woman and the social and economic pressures that form her, its “triumphant” conclusion, set to the soundtrack of the 1954 World Cup final, one of the best and bleakest in Fassbinder’s corpus.
“I can’t get enough of the golden balance that Fassbinder is able to strike between drama at the scale of the individual and the historical.” —Neo Sora
Distributor: Janus Films
Introduction by filmmaker Neo Sora on Sunday, September 14th
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