Name: The Marriage of Maria Braun
Start: 2025-04-24T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Star and Shadow Cinema

The Marriage of Maria Braun Rainer Werner Fassbinder (FDR; 1980; 15) Hanna Schygulla
With an outstanding performance from Hanna Schygulla, this is one of the great European films of the era. Truffaut destribed Maria Braun as: “… an original work of epic and poetic qualities”. Many critics regard the film as Fassbinder’s finest work and it was also a commercial success. Using the career of the eponymous Maria, Fassbinder probes the post war soul of West Germany as the country moves from complete devastation to a condition a wealth created by its total embrace of the ethos of Captalism. Maria’s life emeshes her in the psychic and economic rebuilding of her country.