Marriage of Maria Braun (The)
Original Title
Die Ehe der Maria Braun- Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Producer: Wolf-Dietrich Brucker; Volker Canaris
CGiii Comment
A strangely funny opening scene, followed by the worst title sequence ever.
This has been hailed as another Fassbinder masterpiece - a word used far too liberally for this director.
Convoluted, contrived and clinically choreographed.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Hanna Schygulla as Maria Braun;
Klaus Lowitsch as Hermann Braun;
Ivan Desny as Karl Oswald;
Gisela Uhlen as Mother;
Elisabeth Trissenaar as Betti Klenze;
Gottfried John as Willi Klenze;
Hark Bohm as Senkenberg;
George Eagles as Bill;
Claus Holm as Doctor;
Gunter Lamprecht as Hans Wetzel;
Anton Schiersner as Grandpa Berger;
Lilo Pempeit as Frau Ehmke;
Sonja Neudorfer as Red Cross nurse;
Volker Spengler as Train conductor;
Isolde Barth as Vevi