The Marriage of Maria Braun film "Lili Marleen" with Hanna Schygulla in the main role. Horst Wendlandt would produce the two other films in the BRD Trilogy, "Lola" and "Veronika Voss". His success also allowed him to realize his last project, "Querelle" which was co-financed by Gaumont. As Fengler had oversold the rights to the film, the profit share of Fassbinder was an open question. Eckelkamp saw himself as the sole owner of all rights, but sent a check in the amount of 70,000 DM to Fassbinder in 1982 to appease the director. After Fassbinder's death his mother and heiress Liselotte Eder revived the claims,
Hanna Schygulla your face any more. You bust my balls". They did not work together again for several years until "The Marriage of Maria Braun" in 1978. The film was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival, where she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her performance. In 1980 she acted in Fassbinder's miniseries adaptation of "Berlin Alexanderplatz". In 1981 Schygulla starred alongside Bruno Ganz in Volker Schlöndorff's "Circle of Deceit", and the following year with Isabelle Huppert in Jean-Luc Godard's "Passion". She was a member of the jury at the 15th Moscow International Film Festival in 1987. In