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The BRD Trilogy (German: BRD-Trilogie) consists of three films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982). The films are connected in a thematic rather than in a narrative sense.
Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, and Lola—The BRD Trilogy, which takes its title from the Bundesrepublik Deutschland—would garner him his greatest commercial success, both at home and abroad, and cement his position as one of the foremost figures of the New German Cinema.
Sep 22, 2019 · The films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s BRD trilogy pull off a difficult magic trick, feeling timeless and viscerally in the moment. With his supernatural ability to crank out productions at a rapid clip, Fassbinder achieved what Kent Jones describes as a “direct correlation between living and fiction-making”—a quality that’s also ...
Nov 18, 2019 · Three films would result, each outstanding in its own way, if by varying degrees: 1979’s The Marriage of Maria Braun, 1981’s Lola, and 1982’s Veronika Voss....
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Sep 15, 2019 · However, he was to embark on one of his most ambitious projects – The BRD Trilogy – a series of three films focused on three different women set in the years following World War II and the economic miracle that West Germany was going through.
Sep 29, 2003 · Each film in the trilogy (which only became a trilogy the moment that the “BRD 3” title was placed in the opening credits of Lola in 1981) has an unmade shadow project behind it.
The films of the BRD Trilogy overlap in characters, motifs, themes, and setting. In all three, the films present a tragic, comic, ironic or grotesque spectacle of fetishistic phallic power, which is tied to German history. [21]
