BRD Trilogy of RW Fassbinder (Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, Lola) DVDRip XviD - pimolisene

consists of three films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Veronika Voss (1982), and Lola (1981). The films are connected in a thematic rather than in a narrative sense. All three deal with different characters (though some actors recur in different roles) and plotlines, but each one focuses on the story of a specific woman in West Germany after World War II. The three letter acronym \\\\\\\"BRD\\\\\\\" stands for Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the official name of West Germany and of the united contemporary Germany.



The trilogy was released in a DVD box set by the Criterion Collection in September 2003.



1. The Marriage of Maria Braun: The first film begins in the last days of World War II during the rushed marriage ceremony of Maria Braun, after which her husband is sent to battle the advancing Allies. After Maria later hears that he has been killed, she becomes the mistress of an African-American soldier. When Maria’s husband unexpectedly returns alive, she kills the soldier in a scuffle, but her husband takes the blame. Maria becomes the self-centered assistant and lover of a wealthy industrialist and a model of post-war recovery.

2. Veronika Voss: This stark black-and-white film depicts the twilight years of film actress Veronika Voss. A sports reporter becomes enthralled by the unbalanced actress and discovers that she is under the power of a villainous doctor who keeps her addicted to opiates in order to steal her wealth. Despite his best attempts, he is unable to save her from a terrible end. The original German title, Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss, translates as \\\\\\\"The longing of Veronika Voss\\\\\\\".

3. Lola: Loosely based on Josef von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel and its source novel Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann, Lola tells the story of an upright new building commissioner named Von Bohm who comes to a small town. He falls in love with Lola, innocent of the fact that she is a famed prostitute and the mistress of Shuckert, an unscrupulous developer. Unable to reconcile his idealistic images of Lola with reality, Von Bohm spirals into the very corruption he had sought to fight.



The films were shot and released in a slightly different order to their accepted numbering. Maria Braun, released in 1979, is the earliest in terms of both production and the chronology of the plot, beginning in 1945. However it only became part of the trilogy retrospectively, when Fassbinder added the caption \\\\\\\"BRD 3\\\\\\\" to Lola when it was released in 1981. Veronika Voss, released a year later as Fassbinder\\\\\\\'s penultimate film before his death, included the caption \\\\\\\"BRD 2\\\\\\\" and is set in a slightly earlier period than Lola. Fassbinder did not intend the series to stop at a trilogy but his plans to make further films in the same mould were cut short by his death.