It's accurate to call DEADLY MARIA too good of a bad thing. A cheaper, grittier (perhaps black-and-white) look would have better suited this darkly intimate Teutonic psychodrama, graced with elaborate visuals and production values suitable for a movie of much larger scope.
Maria (Nina Petri) dwells in joyless marital servitude to much older Heinz (Peter Franke). Their family unit is completed by her father Jakobs (Joachim Krol), a demanding, incontinent invalid. Flashbacks gradually fill in Maria's miserable history: after her mother's death, Maria was raised by
Herr Jakobs in a virtual prison environment, with overtones of incest. When Jakobs one day glimpsed h...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
107 mins