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I liked the actress who played Maria and I liked her character too. She's very practical and very efficient, that's how I think of Germany and so she represented that aspect well...She did what she had to do or starve. And that represented the hardships the Germans had to face after their country was destroyed.
I liked the scenes of the people cleaning bricks from the rubble. They did that: men, women, children & old people all gathered, cleaned and stacked bricks so that they could be used to rebuild.
I also liked the way the film had their apartment with a big hole blown in the side of it, which reminded me of Marlene Dietrich's German classic, The Blue Angel (1930).
I liked the dialogue too that Maria spoke. She had this cold wisdom that suited her. The film did drag for me in the last hour and truth be told I wish it had been edited down to 90 minutes. There was about an hours worth of story stretched to 120 minutes, and that made me lose interest towards the end.
Maria was a beauty! She was the best thing in the movie, her and her personal wisdom.
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The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
The subject matter of post WWII Germany and what the people had to do to survive the aftermath of the war is something I'm interested in. Movies like this are a bit like a time travel machine and we get to go back to a time and place we could never visit ourselves. Die Ehe der Maria Braun (original title)
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writers: Pea Fröhlich & Peter Märthesheimer (screenplay)
Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny
Genre: Drama
Language: German
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writers: Pea Fröhlich & Peter Märthesheimer (screenplay)
Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny
Genre: Drama
Language: German
"A World War II widow seeks to adjust to life in postwar Germany."
I liked the actress who played Maria and I liked her character too. She's very practical and very efficient, that's how I think of Germany and so she represented that aspect well...She did what she had to do or starve. And that represented the hardships the Germans had to face after their country was destroyed.
I liked the scenes of the people cleaning bricks from the rubble. They did that: men, women, children & old people all gathered, cleaned and stacked bricks so that they could be used to rebuild.
I also liked the way the film had their apartment with a big hole blown in the side of it, which reminded me of Marlene Dietrich's German classic, The Blue Angel (1930).
I liked the dialogue too that Maria spoke. She had this cold wisdom that suited her. The film did drag for me in the last hour and truth be told I wish it had been edited down to 90 minutes. There was about an hours worth of story stretched to 120 minutes, and that made me lose interest towards the end.
Maria was a beauty! She was the best thing in the movie, her and her personal wisdom.
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