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Lili Marleen is a 1981 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder that stars Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, and Mel Ferrer. Set in the time of the Third Reich , the film recounts the love affair between a German singer who becomes the darling of the nation, based on Lale Andersen , and a Swiss conductor, based on Rolf ...
Jan 14, 1981 · Lili Marleen: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel. In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1981-01-14
“Lili Marleen” is not one of Fassbinder's great films. But it has a wicked sense of humor, displayed in Fassbinder's two favorite opposites, understatement and hyperbole. His characters take the most amazing things quietly in stride, and then get hysterical over trifles; their little ambitions and intrigues obsess them while, half-noticed ...
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Humphrey Jennings directed the 29-minute-long film The True Story of Lili Marlene in 1944 about the song. [54] The song features prominently in Lili Marlene (1950), starring Lisa Daniely. The film tells a fictionalised version of the story of the woman (played by Daniely) who purportedly inspired the song.
Lili Marleen. A German singer (Hanna Schygulla) loves a Swiss composer (Giancarlo Giannini) in hiding and becomes famous for a song in World War II.
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- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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- Hanna Schygulla
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
Overview. The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”. Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
