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''The Marriage of Maria Braun'' (''Die Ehe der Maria Braun'') is a 1979 UsefulNotes/{{West German|y}} film directed by Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder, starring Fassbinder's [[TheMuse muse]] Hanna Schygulla, as well as Klaus Löwitsch and Creator/GottfriedJohn.

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''The Marriage of Maria Braun'' (''Die Ehe der Maria Braun'') is a 1979 UsefulNotes/{{West German|y}} film directed by Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder, starring Fassbinder's [[TheMuse muse]] Hanna Schygulla, Creator/HannaSchygulla, as well as Klaus Löwitsch and Creator/GottfriedJohn.
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''The Marriage of Maria Braun'' (''Die Ehe der Maria Braun'') is a 1979 UsefulNotes/{{West German|y}} film directed by Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder.

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''The Marriage of Maria Braun'' (''Die Ehe der Maria Braun'') is a 1979 UsefulNotes/{{West German|y}} film directed by Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder.
Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder, starring Fassbinder's [[TheMuse muse]] Hanna Schygulla, as well as Klaus Löwitsch and Creator/GottfriedJohn.



The film was perhaps the most successful work of Fassbinder and first installment of Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, followed by ''Film/VeronikaVoss'' and ''Lola''. It is also a Creator/RogerEbert favourite and added the film to his [[Main/RogerEbertGreatMoviesList Great Movies List]].

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The film was perhaps the most successful work of Fassbinder Fassbinder, and the first installment of Fassbinder's his BRD Trilogy, followed by ''Film/VeronikaVoss'' and ''Lola''. It is also a Creator/RogerEbert favourite and added the film to his [[Main/RogerEbertGreatMoviesList Great Movies List]].
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* WomanInWhite: Maria wears a fancy white dress in her last scene [[spoiler: just before her house is blown up and she dies]].

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* WomanInWhite: WhiteShirtOfDeath: Maria wears a fancy white dress in her last scene [[spoiler: just before her house is blown up and she dies]].
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->''It's not a good time for feelings''.

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The film was perhaps the most successful work of Fassbinder and first installment of Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, followed by ''Film/VeronikaVoss'' and ''Lola''.
It is also a Creator/RogerEbert favourite and added the film to his [[Main/RogerEbertGreatMoviesList Great Movies List]].

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The film was perhaps the most successful work of Fassbinder and first installment of Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, followed by ''Film/VeronikaVoss'' and ''Lola''.
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The film was perhaps the most successful work of Fassbinder and first installment of Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, followed by ''Veronika Voss'' and ''Lola''.

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The film was perhaps the most successful work of Fassbinder and first installment of Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, followed by ''Veronika Voss'' ''Film/VeronikaVoss'' and ''Lola''.


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''The Marriage of Maria Braun'' (''Die Ehe der Maria Braun'') is a 1979 [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany West German]] film directed by Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder.

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''The Marriage of Maria Braun'' (''Die Ehe der Maria Braun'') is a 1979 [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany West German]] UsefulNotes/{{West German|y}} film directed by Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder.



* WestGermany: The setting of the later years.
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* WorldWarII: It deals with both the immediate days after Germany's surrender and in a larger scale the following ten years.

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* WomanInBlack: Maria purposefully buys a fancy LittleBlackDress when she worked at a nightclub for American soldiers.
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* MurderOfTheHypothenuse: [[spoiler: Maria accidentally murders Bill when he puts out a fight with Hermann who has just come back from the Eastern front.]]

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* MurderOfTheHypothenuse: MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Maria accidentally murders Bill when he puts out a fight with Hermann who has just come back from the Eastern front.]]
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* MurderTheHypothenuse: [[spoiler: Maria accidentally murders Bill when he puts out a fight with Hermann who has just come back from the Eastern front.]]

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* MurderTheHypothenuse: MurderOfTheHypothenuse: [[spoiler: Maria accidentally murders Bill when he puts out a fight with Hermann who has just come back from the Eastern front.]]
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Both Bill and Karl Oswald are this for the already married Maria.


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* MurderTheHypothenuse: [[spoiler: Maria accidentally murders Bill when he puts out a fight with Hermann who has just come back from the Eastern front.]]
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* RagsToRiches: The main point of the plot is Maria becoming from poor war refugee to a wealthy businesswoman. How she got there and how it affected her personally is [[SweetAndSourGrapes totally another matter]].
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* ParentWithNewParamour: Surprisingly, Maria's mother finds a new partner despite her DespairSpeech about loosing the love of her life at the beginning of the film.


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* WestGermany: The setting of the later years.
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The film was perhaps the most successful works of Fassbinder and first installment of Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, followed by ''Veronika Voss'' and ''Lola''.

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->''It's not a good time for feelings''.
-->--'''Maria Braun'''
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* FemmeFatale: A rare protagonist example, as Maria uses her beauty, sexuality and brains to survive Post-war society.
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* TheMistress: Maria becomes the mistress of entrepreneur Karl Oswald, constantly turning off his marriage proposal and keeping her marriage a secret.

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Maria and Hermann die for a random (or maybe not) domestic incident, just ''minutes'' after they gained the wealth they've been wishing since the War's end.]]

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* BetaCouple: Maria's friends Willi and Betti Klenze [[spoiler: who eventually go through a divorce]].
* BookEnds: The film starts and ends with an explosion: the former is an Allied bombing raid, the latter [[spoiler: a domestic accident that blows up Maria's home]].
* CunningLinguist: Maria starts to work for Karl Oswald as an English translator until she becomes an executive herself.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Maria and Hermann die for a random (or ([[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation or maybe not) not]]) domestic incident, accident, just ''minutes'' after they gained the wealth they've been wishing since the War's end.]]


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* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Maria has a loving relationship with Bill, and Afro-American soldier who gets her pregnant and asks her to marry him, which she turns down because wants to stay faithful to the presumably dead Hermann in her own way. [[spoiler: And then Hermann comes back and finds the two of them making out...]]
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It is also a Creator/RogerEbert favourite and added the film to his [[Main/RogerEbertGreatMoviesList/Great Movies List]].

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'''The Marriage of Maria Braun''' (''Die Ehe der Maria Braun'') is a 1979 [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany West German]] film directed by Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder.
In a wrecked [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII post-war Germany]], Wehrmacht officer's wife Maria tries to adjust on a post-Nazi society and becomes the mistress of a businessman and a successful business woman herself, whole trying to build a future for her and her husband Hermann. The film itself is a parabola for West Germany's economical miracle.

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'''The ''The Marriage of Maria Braun''' Braun'' (''Die Ehe der Maria Braun'') is a 1979 [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany West German]] film directed by Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder.
Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder.

In a wrecked [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII post-war Germany]], Wehrmacht officer's wife Maria Braun tries to adjust on a post-Nazi society and becomes the mistress of a businessman and a successful business woman herself, whole trying to build a future for her and her husband Hermann. The film itself is a parabola parable for West Germany's economical miracle.miracle.



* {{Irony}}: The finale [[spoiler:has the Braun kitchen room blowing up in a domestic accident while the radio plays broadcast of the West German football team defeating Hungary's Mighty Magyars in the World Cup Final]].
* IWillWaitForYou: Despite her (necessary) infidelities, the leitmotif of this film is Maria waiting for her husband to come back.



* IWillWaitForYou: Despite her (necessary) infidelities, the leitmotif of this film is Maria waiting for her husband to come back.
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* Wartime wedding: The very first scene has the protagonist Maria marrying her Wehrmacht beau During an allied bombing raid.

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Maria and Hermann die for a random (or maybe not) domestic incident, just ''minutes'' after they gained the wealth they've been wishing since the War's end.]]
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Maria wears ''very'' fancy clothes when as she's getting wealthier and wealthier.


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* WomanInWhite: Maria wears a fancy white dress in her last scene [[spoiler: just before her house is blown up and she dies]].
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* WomanInBlack: Maria purposefully buys a fancy LittleBlackDress when she worked at a nightclub for American soldiers.

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* WomanInBlack: Maria purposefully buys a fancy LittleBlackDress when she worked at a nightclub for American soldiers.soldiers.
* WorldWarII: It deals with both the immediate days after Germany's surrender and in a larger scale the following then years.
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* Post-Historical Trauma : This film deals with the trauma of the post-war German generation, dealing both with the violence and fallout of the war, perhaps more than any work made by Fassbinder.

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The film was perhaps the most successful works of Fassbinder and first installment of Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, followed by ''Veronika Voss'' and ''Lola''.

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The film was perhaps the most successful works of Fassbinder and first installment of Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, followed by ''Veronika Voss'' and ''Lola''.''Lola''.

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* Post-Historical Trauma : This film deals with the trauma of the post-war German generation, dealing both with the violence and fallout of the war, perhaps more than any work made by Fassbinder.
* IWillWaitForYou: Despite her (necessary) infidelities, the leitmotif of this film is Maria waiting for her husband to come back.
* WomanInBlack: Maria purposefully buys a fancy LittleBlackDress when she worked at a nightclub for American soldiers.
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'''The Marriage of Maria Braun''' (''Die Ehe der Maria Braun'') is a 1979 [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany West German]] film directed by Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder.
In a wrecked [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII post-war Germany]], Wehrmacht officer's wife Maria tries to adjust on a post-Nazi society and becomes the mistress of a businessman and a successful business woman herself, whole trying to build a future for her and her husband Hermann. The film itself is a parabola for West Germany's economical miracle.
The film was perhaps the most successful works of Fassbinder and first installment of Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, followed by ''Veronika Voss'' and ''Lola''.

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