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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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- Drama
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1982-05-13
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.
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Based on the true story of a World War II Ufa star, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss is wicked satire disguised as a 1950s melodrama. A once-beloved Third Reich–era starlet, Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech) lives in obscurity in postwar Munich.
- Veronika Voss
It tells a story of a German actress, famous in the 1940s, who tried to revive her flagging career with alcohol and drugs, and fell into the hands of a sadistic woman doctor who provided the drugs as a means of controlling rich patients.
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech) becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz (Annemarie Düringer), who keeps her supplied with morphine.
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- Drama
- R
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.
