The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) Fassbinder GER-ITA 1080p H.264 (moviesbyrizzo)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079095/

1800 X 1080 H.264 video @8000k video bitrate
448k Main Dolby AC3 stereo audio track in German
192k alternate audio track in 2ch Italian - no Italian bluray disc available it would appear
so we had to pull this much less than hifi quality available Italian audio track from a 720p we found

Subtitles included for Dutch English French Hungarian Italian Polish Romanian Russian and Spanish
sorry no Swedish or German (forced subs) found on bluray disc or on the net - kindly use the
english SRT template (converted from bluray disc) and provided here for you to make more subs
available. - tack! danke!

This is the tale (Directed by famous Director Fassbinder of German cinema) of Maria Braun
a woman in WWII Germany who succumbs to taking a black man as her lover (he is a uniformed
US "coloured soldier" (as they were referred to back then)  part of the occupying American forces
on German soil. She was under the impression that her husband away at the front, may have perhaps
lost his own life and for this reason felt abandoned enough to take on such an extreme idea of a mate
for a woman of her type in those times most of all. Her husband does re-appear and this moment
of joy returns her sanity to the full extent that she turns back events in her own idea of this and
strikes the black man who was her lover and who stood naked in the room with her and her
husband, with an object to his head which caused the instant death of the black man she had taken
on in her despair of having thought her husband lost forever at the time. Her husband gallantly takes
responsibility for the accidental death of the black American soldier killed by dear Maria Braun.

Later on a train when in the company of a nice seeming German businessman, she is harassed
by another black American soldier who tells them both that he is looking for a fuck. She responds
that she could just give him one- in a stockade - by having him arrested. He immediately flees
the scene.  So an interesting look at a clash between culture mores and race relations at the time
the war was just coming to an end and the folks in Germany under enemy occupation of allied forces

Considered Fassbinder's best contribution to the cinema by most of his fans it seems and
this is pointed out on the 192k ENG commentary track which we chose to leave out this go-round

Thanks for seeding
Michael Rizzo Chessman
(moviesbyrizzo).