Brd Trilogy, The

aka: Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, Lola
1979-1982, 339 minutes
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
In German with English subtitles
Rating: [R16]

Aroview: In 1977, German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was thirty-two years old and had already directed more than twenty-five feature films. That summer, he embarked on a project to trace the postwar history of West Germany in a series of ?lms told from the perspectives of three remarkable women.

DVD Features

Audio commentaries from 2003 featuring filmmaker Wim Wenders and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus (The Marriage of Maria Braun), film critic and author Tony Rayns (Veronika Voss), and film scholar Christian Braad Thomsen (Lola).

Interviews from 2003 with actors Hanna Schygulla, Rosel Zech, Barbara Sukowa, cinematographer Xaver Schwarzenberger, screenwriter Peter Märthesheimer, and film scholar Eric Rentschler.

An interview with R. W. Fassbinder filmed for German television in 1978

A feature-length 1992 documentary on director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s life and career

A program from 2000 about Ufa studios star Sybille Schmitz, Fassbinder’s inspiration for the character Veronika Voss.

PLUS: An essay by film critic Kent Jones and production histories by author Michael Töteberg (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)