Question: Which film whose director is younger, The Marriage Of Maria Braun or An Ache In Every Stake?

He is widely regarded as a prominent figure and catalyst of the New German Cinema movement. His first feature- length film was a gangster movie called" Love Is Colder Than Death"( 1969); he scored his first domestic commercial success with" The Merchant of Four Seasons"( 1972) and his first international success with( 1974), both of which are considered masterpieces by contemporary critics. Big- budget projects such as" Despair"( 1978)," Lili Marleen" and" Lola"( both 1981) followed. His greatest success came with" The Marriage of Maria Braun"( 1979), chronicling the rise and fall of a German woman in the wake of World War II. Other notable films include" The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant"( 1972)," Fox and His Friends"( 1975)," Satan's Brew"( 1976), and" Querelle"( 1982), all of which focused on gay and lesbian themes. Rainer Werner Fassbinder( 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright, theatre director, composer, cinematographer, editor, and essayist. Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982, at the age of 37, from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates. Although his career lasted less than two decades, he was extremely prolific; by the time of his death, he had completed over forty feature films, two television series, three short films, four video productions, and twenty- four plays. <SEP> The Marriage of William Ashe is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Henry Ainley, Alma Taylor and Stewart Rome. It is an adaptation of the 1905 novel" The Marriage of William Ashe" by Mary Augusta Ward. A subsequent American adaptation was made in 1921. <SEP> The Marriage of Maria Braun is a 1978 West German film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film stars Hanna Schygulla as Maria, whose marriage to the soldier Hermann remains unfulfilled due to World War II and his post-war imprisonment. Maria adapts to the realities of post-war Germany and becomes the wealthy mistress of an industrialist, all the while staying true to her love for Hermann. The film was one of the more successful works of Fassbinder and shaped the image of the New German Cinema in foreign countries. The film is the first installment of Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, followed by" Lola" and" Veronika Voss". <SEP> Delmar" Del" Lord( October 7, 1894 March 23, 1970) was a Canadian film director and actor best known as a director of Three Stooges films. <SEP> Hanna Schygulla( born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer. Long associated with the theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, for whom she first worked in 1965, she was prominent in the New German Cinema. She won the 1979 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress for Fassbinder's" The Marriage of Maria Braun", and the 1983 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the Marco Ferreri film" The Story of Piera". <SEP> It is the 57th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959. An Ache in Every Stake is a 1941 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges( Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard).