Part of the BRD Trilogy along with El matrimonio de María Braun (1979) and Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982). "BRD" stands for Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the official name of West Germany and of the united contemporary Germany, period in which those three stories takes place.
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #206.
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