Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema

THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (1979)
120 MINUTES, GERMANY
DIRECTOR: RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
CAST:  HANNA SCHYGULLA, KLAUS LOWITSCH, R. W. FASSBINDER

World War Two and Maria Braun and her husband are married as the bombs drop around them. Two days later he is sent to the front. Maria needs to become very tough to survive in war-wracked Germany.  When the war ends, she searches every day, longing for his return. 

But his home-coming is not the happy reunion she hoped for. She still loves him, indeed so much she may be even willing to kill for him. But she has to deal with a lover who still wants to control her. The film has a powerful, unexpected ending.