The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

Gisela Uhlen: Mother

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• Mother : It's wrong to give all your love to only one person, Grandpa. If you don't have potatoes, you eat turnips. When the turnips are gone, you eat gruel. But every girl loves her one and only. He goes to war; five months later he's dead, and you mourn the rest of your life. Does that make sense to you, Grandpa? It drowns you.

• Mother : He kept me warm on those cold nights after the war.

  Wetzel : Oh, really?

  Mother : He always brought me firewood.