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May 13, 1982 · Veronika Voss: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer. Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward.
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- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1982-05-13
Dec 4, 2012 · It was hailed as one of the best of his 40 films. Late on the night of June 9, 1982, he made a telephone call from Munich to Paris to tell his best friend he had flushed all his drugs down the toilet — everything except for one last line of cocaine.
Veronika Voss (German: Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss, lit. "The Longing of Veronika Voss") is a 1982 West German black-and-white drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and starring Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, and Cornelia Froboess.
Veronika Voss (1982) Rated R. 105 minutes. "Veronika Voss" was the next-to-last film made by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died June 10, 1982 in Munich of a fatal combination of drugs and alcohol.
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom.
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Morphine addicted movie queen Veronika Voss is modeled on Sybille Schmitz, an actress who killed herself in 1953, partly due to negative fallout from her star turns during the Third Reich. Cast & Crew