Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s penultimate film of the seventies was also his most successful. Popular with audiences and critics alike, among them Roger Ebert and François Truffaut, The Marriage of Maria Braun finally provided its director with the international breakthrough he had craved for so long. Centred on an astonishing performance from Fassbinder regular Hanna Schygulla in the lead role, The Marriage of Maria Braun took over four million Deutschmarks in its home country and made over a million dollars in the US. Such success proved influential too – without it we would likely never have seen Helma Sanders-Brahms’ Germany, Pale Mother or Edgar Reitz’s epic Heimat.
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
Brand new 4K restoration from original camera negatives
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
Original uncompressed PCM mono audio
Optional English subtitles
Life, Love & Celluloid, a 1998 feature-length documentary on Fassbinder, written and directed by his regular editor, Juliane Lorenz
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977, a candid 30-minute interview with the director.
The Fassbinder Family, an all-new featurette detailing the actors who worked with Fassbinder time and again throughout his career
