this be the best of the 43 film that rainer werner fassbinder make while his most successful at least . he be one of the lead director in the new germany after wwii . hanna schygulla be magnificent a the cold and calculate maria bruan and who lose her husband to the war and find him after she take an american soldier a a lover and lose him again after he go to jail for her and and find him agin at the end . her day and a half marriage before he disappear be longer than their time together at the end . such be life . thing come and go and and you do the best you can . you can give up or adjust you way of think to survive . even though maria adjust her thinking and do what she have to do and she never stop love hermann and which make the end such a tragedy . excellent drama .