Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
Federal Republic of Germany
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Year
1978
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- The Marriage of Maria Braun Alternative
Introduction
With a blazing star performance from Hanna Schygulla in the title role, this was Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s greatest critical and commercial success.
It’s the ‘everywoman’ tale of Maria Braun, whose wartime marriage lasts less than one day before her husband is sent to the front. When he fails to return in 1945, she struggles to rebuild her life through a formidable mixture of talent, energy and seductive power.
This was the ‘German Hollywood film’ Fassbinder had longed to make, truly entertaining yet subversively honest. It was widely understood as a savage indictment of the German ‘economic miracle’ – the rapid post-war reconstruction of the West German and Austrian economies – but Fassbinder offers something altogether more nuanced: a fascinating insight into the murky compromises of his parents’ generation.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Maria Braun
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Hermann Braun
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Dr Karl Oswald
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Maria's mother
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Betti Klenze
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Willi Klenze
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Senkenberg
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Bill
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prosecuting counsel
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Granpa Berger
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Frau Ehmke
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train conductor
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Red Cross nurse
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doctor
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American soldier on train
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notary
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Hans Wetzel
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Veri
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American at conference
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guard 2
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black market dealer
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reporter
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man with car
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guard 1
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counsel
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Bronski
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justice of the peace
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[guard 3]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
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Script Supervisor
Production:
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Production Company
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Production Company
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Production Company
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Unit Assistant
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Production Manager
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Organisation
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Organisation
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Organisation
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Organisation
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Organisation
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Organisation
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Organisation
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Technical Collaborator
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Technical Collaborator
Writing:
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Screenplay
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Screenplay
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Dialogue
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Dialogue
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Dialogue
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Based on an idea by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Lighting
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Camera Assistant
Editing:
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Editor
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Editor
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Editorial Assistant
Design:
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Art Director
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Art Director
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Art Director
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Art Director
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Set Decorator
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Set Decorator
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Set Decorator
Costumes:
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Costumes
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Costumes
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Costumes
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Costumes
Make-up:
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Make-up
Music:
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Music
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Music Collaborator
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Music Collaborator
Sound:
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Sound Recording
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Sound Mixer
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Sound Assistant
Subtitles:
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Subtitles Translation
Consultant:
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Transportation
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[Dedictaed] to
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