Berlin's Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Will Stream DIE EHE DER MARIA BRAUN

Berlin's Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz will stream DIE EHE DER MARIA BRAUN today from 12:30pm to 6pm EST.

Watch the trailer below:

Hermann and Maria Braun are getting married in a town hall, which has just been hit by a bomb during the Second World War. Two days later Hermann has to return to the front and doesn't make it back once the war is over. Maria waits, eking out a living and then receives the news that he is dead. She works in a bar and begins a relationship with a black GI. One evening, when she's just about to go to bed with him, Hermann walks through the door. She strikes her lover dead. In court, her husband takes all the blame on himself and goes to jail for her. In his place, Maria strives towards a better life. Towards a common future on the Big Day, the day of his second return. She learns the basic economic laws of the boom years of the just founded German Republic and believes herself to be in control of her emotional life which is, however, dictated by economic rules. A mistake for which she will end up paying a high price. »The Marriage of Maria Braun«, the 38th film made by Fassbinder in his short lifetime, is the first part of the Federal Republic of Germany trilogy (after »Lola« and »The Longing of Veronika Voss«) and is at the heart of Fassbinder's confrontation with the founding myths of the Federal Republic.

After the film by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Direction: Thomas Ostermeier
Stage design: Nina Wetzel
Costume design: Ulrike Gutbrod, Nina Wetzel
Video: Sébastien Dupouey
Music: Nils Ostendorf
Dramaturgy: Julia Lochte, Florian Borchmeyer

Maria Braun: Ursina Lardi
Hermann Braun, Betti, Amerikanischer Soldat, Journalist, Kellner: Sebastian Schwarz
Standesbeamter, Opa Berger, Bronski, Dolmetscher, Karl Oswald, Notarin: Thomas Bading
Mutter, Arzt, Richter, Senkenberg Wärter, Anwalt, Kellner: Robert Beyer
Rotkreuzschwester, Schwarzmarkthändler Bill, Willi, Schaffner, Amerikanischer Geschäftsmann, Frau Ehmke, Kellner, Wetzel: Moritz Gottwald

Duration: ca. 105 minutes

Premiered at the Schaubühne on 23 November 2009

Learn more at schaubuehne.de/en/produktionen/die-ehe-der-maria-braun.html.