The stark atmosphere, icy performances, and poignant revelations make it one of the most important films to emerge from Germany in the 1970s, and one of Fassbinder's best.
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09/18/06
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:13
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: After her soldier husband is sent to the Russian front during World War II and eventually reported dead, a lovelorn woman pines for him, despite half-heartedly taking lovers and eventually amassing... [More]
Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Lowitsch, Ivan Desny
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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06/24/06
The film's epic structure and period detail has always pleased critics, but Fassbinder avoids the usual trappings of the genre and manages a raw intimacy throughout.
06/24/06
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06/30/05
Fassbinder himself was cruel and distant to those around him, particularly those who loved him, and in Maria Braun, he created an indelible monster who is perversely fascinating.
10/23/04
Top CriticEnormous if sobering fun -- and one of the notable accomplishments of modern German cinema.
07/05/04
This is what happens when theme is emphasized over story--a series of inorganic plot developments constructed to suit Fassbinder's indictment of postwar Germany.
02/17/04
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02/08/04
The Marriage of Maria Braun can be seen as the story of a shrewd and ambitious woman or as a parable on the decadence of postwar Germany.
01/27/04
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07/07/03
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05/24/03
The Marriage of Maria Braun is both an epic comedy and a romantic ballad, two not especially friendly forms that become seamlessly one in the sweet, tough, brilliantly complex performance of Hanna Schygulla.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
01/24/03
No matter how Maria Braun is interpreted, Fassbinder's film is always poignant and striking and alarmingly frightening.
11/18/02
A masterwork
10/11/02
Though Fassbinder takes a more open attitude toward his characters, letting them exist as fully developed psychological specimens, his deadly irony continues to operate on the level of mise-en-scene.
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