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Lili Marleen (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
72 min + 10 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1981 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Written By:
Lale Andersen
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Actors:
Hanna Schygulla ..... Willie
Giancarlo Giannini ..... Robert
Mel Ferrer ..... David Mendelsson
Karl-Heinz von Hassel ..... Henkel (as Karl Heinz von Hassel)
Erik Schumann ..... von Strehlow
Hark Bohm ..... Taschner
Gottfried John ..... Aaron
Karin Baal ..... Anna Lederer
Christine Kaufmann ..... Miriam
Udo Kier ..... Drewitz
Roger Fritz ..... Kauffmann
Rainer Will ..... Bernt
Raúl Gimenez ..... Blonsky (as Raul Giminez)
Adrian Hoven ..... Ginsberg
Willy Harlander ..... Prosel

Synopsis:

In Switzerland German singer 'Willie' falls in love with Jewish composer 'Robert' who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that 'Willie' is also a Nazi and may be a risk for them. One day 'Willie' helps 'Robert' but has to stay in Germany. As Willie starts to sing the song 'Lili Marleen' she becomes very famous and every soldier hears that song via radio at 8 pm. Although even Hitler wants to meet her she still does not forget 'Robert' and helps to smuggle photos of concentration camps to the free Switzerland. When 'Robert' wants to visit her he is captured he can finally get free again but he will never see Willie again until war is over.

German cabaret star Lili Marleen inspired a song that was extremely popular with the German soldiers during WW II. This war drama offers a fictionalized account of her story that begins in 1938 while she performs in a Zurich cabaret. It is her boyfriend, a Swiss Jew who also turns out to be a resistance fighter who pens her famous song. She sings it in Germany and it becomes a hit with the German troops. As a result, Hitler himself invites her to perform for him. This does not set well with the songwriter's powerful who, upon learning that Marleen has become a famed singer in Germany, seek to have her barred from Switzerland. This does not stop the songwriter from loving her though and desperate to see her one last time, he sneaks into Berlin for a tryst. Unfortunately he is arrested and she gets blacklisted. They do not see each other again until after the war. By this time, their lives have changed considerably. This is not considered among the best of Fassbinder's best films.

A critique of pop mythology disguised as the doomed love story of the bubble-headed cabaret chanteuse who recorded the most beloved ballad of WWII while serving as a Jewish spy.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 18 May, 2009.

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