Sunday 31 July 2016

Ehe der Maria Braun
(1979)

RATING:100%
FORMAT:DVD

[Marriage of Maria Braun]

Making the Personal Political

Hanna SCHYGULLA – the best actress Germany has produced in decades – completely dominates this brilliant movie. She fully symbolizes the moral and political collapse of post-Second World War West Germany; literally matching the collapse that was implicit before.

Survival by the most adept, enterprising and intelligent is the order‑of‑the‑day – that this future comes from not facing the past explains the former Wirtschaftswunder.

As changeable and capricious as women are, the West Germany shown here moves from Nazi fanaticism to democratic capitalism with false ease. A desire for independence coupled with a dependent need to be thought desirable; like a determined master‑of‑disguise, West Germany became a desirable woman who made the men (the rest of the world) envious.

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