Fassbinder - The BRD Trilogy - 3-DVD Set ( The Marriage of Maria Braun / Lola / Veronika Voss ) ( Die Ehe der Maria Braun / Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss )

Fassbinder - The BRD Trilogy - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Marriage of Maria Braun / Lola / Veronika Voss
Alternate Title: Die Ehe der Maria Braun / Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
David Donatello Awards
Golden Globes
Toronto International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
339 min + 52 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Anamorphic Widescreen
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1979 - 1982 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Written By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Pea Fröhlich

Actors:
Hanna Schygulla ..... Maria Braun
Klaus Löwitsch ..... Hermann Braun
Ivan Desny ..... Karl Oswald
Gisela Uhlen ..... Mother
Elisabeth Trissenaar ..... Betti Klenze
Gottfried John ..... Willi Klenze
Hark Bohm ..... Senkenberg
George Eagles ..... Bill
Claus Holm ..... Doctor
Günter Lamprecht ..... Hans Wetzel
Anton Schiersner ..... Grandpa Berger
Lilo Pempeit ..... Frau Ehmke
Sonja Neudorfer ..... Red Cross nurse
Volker Spengler ..... Train conductor
Isolde Barth ..... Vevi
Barbara Sukowa ..... Lola
Armin Mueller-Stahl ..... Von Bohm
Mario Adorf ..... Schukert
Matthias Fuchs ..... Esslin
Helga Feddersen ..... Frau Hettich
Karin Baal ..... Lola's Mother
Ivan Desny ..... Wittich
Elisabeth Volkmann ..... Gigi
Hark Bohm ..... Volker
Karl-Heinz von Hassel ..... Timmerding
Rosel Zech ..... Frau Schuckert
Sonja Neudorfer ..... Frau Fink
Christine Kaufmann ..... Susi
Y Sa Lo ..... Rosa
Günther Kaufmann ..... GI
Rosel Zech ..... Veronika Voss
Hilmar Thate ..... Robert Krohn
Cornelia Froboess ..... Henriette
Annemarie Düringer ..... Dr. Marianne Katz
Doris Schade ..... Josefa
Erik Schumann ..... Dr. Edel
Peter Berling ..... Filmproduzent / Dicker Mann
Günther Kaufmann ..... G.I. / Dealer
Sonja Neudorfer ..... Verkäuferin
Lilo Pempeit ..... Chehm
Volker Spengler ..... 1. Regisseur
Herbert Steinmetz ..... Gärtner
Elisabeth Volkmann ..... Grete
Hans Wyprächtiger ..... Chefredakteur
Peter Zadek ..... 2. Regisseur

Synopsis:

Three Films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder THE BRD TRILOGY is RW Fassbinders insightful interpretation of life in Germany after the Second World War, which follows the realities of three distinct women who are ultimately connected by the ambition and strength they manage to muster in Germanys darkest hour. The crowning achievement of a filmmaker whose short career was one of the most impressive and prolific the world has ever seen. THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN After her new husband was reportedly killed in combat, Maria Braun uses her sexual allure, her startling intelligence and her ruthless ambition to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in a devastated post-war Germany. LOLA Nightclub singer and prostitute Lola exploits her sexuality in order to gain power over men in this, Fassbinders homage to Josef von Sternbergs THE BLUE ANGEL. VERONIKA VOSS Once the shining star of the Nazi propaganda machine, Veronika Voss now lives in obscurity in Munich, propelled only by prescription drugs. But when a sportswriter becomes fascinated with the beautiful Veronika, her dark past threatens to expose itself.

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
The film that elevated German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder from domestic approbation to international acclaim, THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN stars the director's on-and-off favorite actress Hanna Schygulla in the title role. During the allied siege of Germany in the last year of the war, Maria's new husband (Klaus Löwitsch) is shipped off to the Russian front before the marriage is consummated. As she struggles to survive wartime deprivations, Maria haunts the local train station, seeking out information concerning her husband. When it appears that she's a widow, Maria takes a job as a barmaid and befriends a black soldier (George Byrd) from the occupying allied troops, who sees to it that Maria's family receives vital food and supplies. The opportunistic Maria eventually takes a job with a wealthy importer (IVAN DESNY), building herself up to a position of power and indispensability. Though she sleeps with her employer, Maria still carries a torch for her husband.

Lola (1981)
Part of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Entire History of the German Federal Republic trilogy, Lola stars Barbara Sukowa in the title role, a seductive cabaret singer and dancer in the 1950s who is romantically involved with Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a straight-as-an-arrow building inspector. Recently appointed Building Commissioner, Von Bohm is committed to eradicating corruption. Consequently, he's given quite a shock when he is called into inspect the brothel where Lola works and discovers her dancing there. With that, Von Bohm is left to question whether he is more loyal to the woman he loves so passionately or the career he believes in so strongly. The other entries in the trilogy are Veronika Voss and The Marriage of Maria Braun.

Veronika Voss (1982)
Originally Die Sehnsucht de Veronika Voss, this Rainer Werner Fassbinder spin on Sunset Boulevard stars Rosel Zech as film actress Veronika Voss. Once the toast of Germany, Veronika had allegedly been an intimate of Joseph Gobbels. But the Third Reich is dead...and Veronika may as well be. Playing to an increasingly diminishing fan following, Veronika turns to drugs to cushion her against the cruelties of life. Her self-destruction is accelerated by her "Doctor Feelgood" Annemaire Duringer, who plys Veronika with morphine in order to gain control of the actress's money and property. Well-meaning sportswriter Hilmar Thate tries to save Veronika from herself, sacrificing his own personal happiness -- and the life of his girlfriend Cornelia Froeboess -- in the process. Allegedly an amalgam of several true stories, Veronika Voss is the last of Fassbinder's "postwar trilogy" (the first two were The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lola).

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
This movie follows the life of a young German woman, married to a soldier in the waning days of WWII. Fassbinder has tried to show the gritty life after the end of WWII and the turmoil of the people trapped in its wake.

Lola (1981)
Ten years after the war, West Germany's market economy is booming. Into an unnamed city that's rife with corruption comes a new building commissioner, Herr von Bohm, committed to progress but also upright. He's smitten by Marie-Louise, a single mother who's his landlady's daughter. Von Bohm does not realize she is also Lola, a singer at a bordello and the mistress of Schuckert, a local builder whose profits depend on von Bohm's projects. When von Bohm discovers Marie-Louise's real vocation and looks closely at Schuckert's work, will this social satire play out as a remake of 'Blue Angel,' a visit of Chekhov to West Germany, or an update of Jean Renoir's 'Rules of the Game'?

Veronika Voss (1982)
Munich, 1955: A sports journalist meets Veronika Voss, an UFA actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels. Now declining, Voss is kept by her 'kind' doctor, Dr. Katz, supplying her house, food, clean clothes and her favourite: morphine. Voss, trying to come back towards the cinema, cannot perform an absurdly simple scene, but it attracts the attention of the journalist, who suspects that something's very wrong regarding her doctor.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 14 February, 2012.

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