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The Marriage of Maria Braun

120 minutes 1979 7.7

In 1943, Maria marries her beloved Hermann before he goes off to war. She is faithful to him until the end of the war, but Hermann does not come home. She meets an African-American man with whom she begins a romance. But suddenly Hermann appears, when Maria has her new lover in bed.

The German auteur Fassbinder tells in The Marriage of Maria Braun an alternately romantic, alternately pitch-black account of life, love and death.

The film is not playable outside of Norway
Original title: Die Ehe der Maria Braun
Category: Feature Film
Genre: Drama
Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Producer: Wolf-Dietrich Brücker, Volker Canaris
Script: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pea Fröhlich, Peter Märthesheimer
Country: Germany
Language: German