The Marriage of Maria Braun was proposed for our 4th Birthday celebrations by Garden Cinema member Alex Titcombe.

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.

Maria Braun marries a young soldier amid the Allied bombing raids of World World II the day before he must return to the Russian front. Awaiting his return in 1945, she is informed of his death and must endure and navigate the post-war years alone. Mirroring the German Wirtschaftswunder ('economic miracle'), she determinedly rises to prosperity as a self-made woman.

This screening will finish at 15:30.

Cast:
Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny