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Lola
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
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Veronika Voss
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Maria (Hanna Schygulla) marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany’s “economic miracle” of the 1950s. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s biggest international box-office success, The Marriage of Maria Braun is a heartbreaking study of a woman picking herself up from the ruins of her own life, as well as a pointed metaphorical attack on a society determined to forget its past.
Veronika Voss
A once-beloved Third Reich–era starlet, Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech) lives in obscurity in postwar Munich. Struggling for survival and haunted by past glories, she encounters sportswriter Robert Krohn (Hilmar Thate) in a rain-swept park and intrigues him with her mysterious beauty. As their unlikely relationship develops, Robert comes to discover the dark secrets that brought about the decline of Veronika’s career. Based on the true story of a World War II Ufa star, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss is wicked satire disguised as 1950s melodrama.
Lola
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola (Barbara Sukowa), a seductive cabaret singer–prostitute, exults in her power as a tempter of men, but she wants more—money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor (Mario Adorf) against the new straight-arrow building commissioner (Armin Mueller-Stahl), Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything—and everyone—is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Lola, an homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel, is a wonderfully satirical tribute to capitalism.
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Supplements
- Audio commentary by cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and renowned filmmaker Wim Wenders
- Exclusive video interview with the star of The Marriage of Maria Braun and regular Fassbinder collaborator, Hanna Schygulla
- Video interview with Fassbinder scholar Eric Rentschler
- Audio commentary from 2003 featuring film critic and author Tony Rayns, editor of Fassbinder
- Conversation from 2003 between actor Rosel Zech and film editor Juliane Lorenz
- Dance with Death, a program from 2000 about Ufa studios star Sybille Schmitz, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's inspiration for the character Veronika Voss
- Audio commentary from 2003 featuring film scholar Christian Braad Thomsen
- Interview from 2003 with actor Barbara Sukowa
- Interview from 2003 with screenwriter Peter Märthesheimer
- I Don't Just Want You to Love Me, a feature-length 1992 documentary on director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s life and career
- Life Stories: A conversation with R.W. Fassbinder, a rare 45-minute interview with the director, made for German television
- Exclusive video interview with Fassbinder cinematographer Xaver Schwarzenberger
- Exclusive video conversation between Fassbinder scholar Laurence Kardish and editor Juliane Lorenz
- Booklet featuring an essay by Kent Jones and production histories translated by Stephen Locke
- Trailer for Veronika Voss
- Trailer for The Marriage of Maria Braun
- Trailer for Lola