maria braun be an extraordinary woman present fully and very credibly and despite be so obtuse a to border on implausibility . she will do everything to make her marriage work and include shameless opportunism and sexual manipulation . and thus beneath the vicey exterior and she reveal a rather sweet value system . the film suffers from an abrupt and unexpected end which afterwards feel wholly inadequate and with the convenience familiar from end your school creative writing exercise with and then i wake up . it be also book end at the other end with the most eccentric title sequence i have ever see and but do not let any of that put you off .