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GERMANY · 1978

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
New German Cinema
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Year1978
CountryGermany
DirectorRainer Werner Fassbinder
MovementNew German Cinema
Cinematic DNA
Fassbinder inherited Douglas Sirk’s melodramatic impulse and pushed it into a much more political, Brechtian, and self-conscious direction, as in The Marriage of Maria Braun or Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. His films had a huge impact on me.
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