The Marriage of Maria Braun
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- Year:
- 1979
- 120 min
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Do you, Hermann Braun,
take this woman to be your wife?
I do.
I do.
I can't get out.
Hey, stay here! Don't run away!
Let me go! Please!
CIVIL REGISTRY:
Hermann!
Are you all right?
- Come here!
Sign here.
Put the stamp on it!
FOR PETER ZADEK:
Is that you, Maria?
I was worried to death.
I thought something
had happened to you.
Nobody wants wedding dresses now.
Too many girls, not enough men.
That's all I got for it.
There's so much shaving gear
on the market.
There, my dear.
Let's fry some potatoes with bacon.
We interrupt this performance
of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
for this SOS broadcast
for missing persons.
For each of the names mentioned,
we have a message.
5821...
Adler.
First name unknown.
Born 1910,
paymaster from Vienna.
5822...
Albartz, Eugen.
I still feel sick
at the sight of some of them.
I could do with a tea now.
crosswise is not the worst.
If you get hit all on one side,
you can't even hold a crutch.
I've seen it going on for six years,
and I've been a widow for five.
I'd have been satisfied with mine,
if he had only come back.
How long were you married?
I still am married.
I just meant you didn't have much
from your marriage.
Yes, I did.
Half a day and a whole night.
Mine was killed right at the start.
In Norway.
Mine was killed right at the start.
In Norway.
He was in the navy,
until his ship was sunk.
Two soups, please.
He survived
and swam through icy water
covered with burning oil.
Then he had to fight on land.
Then he fell into a crevasse and died.
Why didn't you marry again?
In condolence,
they sent me a painting:
a picture of a wreath with a ribbon
floating on the waves,
with "They died that Germany might live"
written on it.
Just imagine.
"They died that Germany might live,"
and he's dead.
They send me a picture of the sea,
and he falls into a glacier.
There were once seas
where the mountains are now,
before the last ice age.
How can you be so sure
your husband's not dead?
Because I want him to come back.
What did he say?
Something indecent.
I don't know what you said,
but you had no right to.
You must be crazy.
The divorce is pending.
That's why he told me:
because he loves me.
But her!
Since I have her husband now,
she said she was going to keep
his food ration card.
Ration card?
And now?
I don't know.
Shame on you.
All right, Grandpa Berger.
Let's try it on.
to love one person all their lives.
If we don't have potatoes,
we eat turnips.
If we have no turnips, we eat gruel.
But in love, there's only one man,
and when he goes to war
and is dead five months later,
you have to mourn
for the rest of your life.
Does that make sense, Grandpa?
Much too wide.
No. It ain't good being alone.
It was almost too tight for Karl
the last time he was here,
in May '41.
The men still looked like men then.
Now they all look
as if they've shrunk.
You can take the underpants.
They're warm.
And no one will mind
if they're too big.
Let's say three bundles of firewood?
All right.
Look what Maria had.
and one day of marriage.
Now she stands there
with her search board.
Do you know
why we always stick to one guy?
Because there is only
one you love.
I don't know how Maria knew it
at such a tender age.
Here she is.
Take your things, Grandpa.
She has her pride.
How wide?
"Pride," I said.
There you are at last.
I was just sorting out
your father's things.
Hello, Grandpa Berger.
It's nice to have a man
in the house to come home to.
And it's warm, too.
Yes, it's warm, too.
Why are you doing that here?
It's my way of remembering
your father.
Grandpa Berger can use them.
Father won't need them anymore,
and we need firewood.
I thought the same thing,
but what about Father's belongings?
Father is dead and we're alive.
What will you give me for them?
Your brooch?
My brooch?
It's very valuable.
There's one missing.
Very well.
Okay then.
Wait. I'll go get it.
Here.
Bunch of Nazis!
Snotty-nosed bastards!
They're not proper men anymore.
What difference does it make,
whether you're a man
or a woman if you're freezing?
Something has to change.
What do you want to change?
I don't know.
But something has to happen.
- Do you know Hermann Braun?
- No.
Shed no tears for love
Shed no tears for love
In this wide world
there's more than one
There's more than one fish
in the sea
I look like a poodle.
You think so?
It's the latest thing.
I'll bet...
the Americans
My Willy wouldn't have approved.
That's for sure.
Hermann wouldn't have minded.
And they won't hire you anyway.
- We'll see about that.
- What'll you wear?
What do you do with this?
Play music.
Shall I play something for you?
Any requests?
Yes.
Cut it out.
For God's sake, stop it.
What use is it if you can't even play
the national anthem?
Go on in.
Keep your eyes open here.
I didn't think you were coming.
I waited so long.
Hold this a second.
Black, short sleeves,
and low-cut.
It wasn't easy to come by.
Is it for you or is it a gift?
It's a gift.
We all have to make a living.
And the liquor?
For my mom.
Helps her forget her troubles
with her daughter...
and eases her heartache.
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