Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Rebel of German Cinema
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN
35mm screening
Friday, May 31st at 7 PM
16 Public | $10 Members
Introduction by CAC Co-Director Dylan Skolnick
Maria (Hanna Schygulla) marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II,
only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and
ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany’s “economic miracle” of the
1950s. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s biggest international box-office
success, The Marriage of Maria Braun is a heartbreaking study
of a woman picking herself up from the ruins of her own life, as well as a
pointed metaphorical attack on a society determined to forget its past. (120
mins, 1979)