Lili Marleen (film)

Movie
Original title	Lili Marleen
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1981
length	120 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
script	Rainer Werner Fassbinder Manfred Purzer Joshua Sinclair Werner Uschkurat freely based on Lale Andersen
production	Luggi Waldleitner Enzo Peri
music	Peer ravens
camera	Xaver Schwarzenberger Michael Ballhaus
cut	Rainer Werner Fassbinder Juliane Lorenz
occupation
Hanna Schygulla : Willie Giancarlo Giannini : Robert Mendelsson Mel Ferrer : David Mendelssohn Karl-Heinz von Hassel : Henkel Erik Schumann : from Strehlow Hark Bohm : Taschner Gottfried John : Aaron Willy Harlander : Theo Prosel Karin Baal : Anna Lederer Christine Kaufmann : Miriam Udo Kier : Drewitz Roger Fritz : Kauffmann Adrian Hoven : Ginsberg Barbara Valentin : Eva Helen Vita : Grete Elisabeth Volkmann : Marika Lilo Pempeit : Tamara Brigitte Mira : neighbor Rudolf Lenz : Dr. Belief right Irm Hermann : nurse Harry Baer : Norbert Schultze Alexander Allerson : Goedecke

Lili Marleen is a film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and released in 1981. The script was written using the novel The Sky Has Many Colors by Lale Andersen . However, according to Lale Andersen's last husband Artur Beul , the film plot doesn't have much in common with her real life.

action

The film is set at the time of the “ Third Reich ” and is about the love between the German singer Willie Bunterberg and the Jewish Swiss composer Robert Mendelsson ( Rolf Liebermann serves as a model ), who is actively trying to pre-empt German Jews and refugees as a member of an underground group to help the Nazi regime. When he offers Willie to join her in resistance and help, Roberts' wealthy and influential family fears that Willie, too, was a Nazi and could thus pose a risk to their help .

One day, Willie helps Robert anyway, but has to stay in Germany because Switzerland refuses to allow her to re-enter at Robert's father's instigation. Willie is made big in Germany by the Nazi cultural commissioner Henkel with the soldier song Lili Marleen , she becomes rich and famous, the song is played daily for the soldiers. She can never forget Robert and he too longs for Willie. When he tries to visit Willie, he is arrested. She then made contact with an underground group in Berlin and secretly sent photos of concentration camps in Switzerland, which later helped Robert to be released.

Willie and Robert won't see each other until the end of the war. Even after that there is no happy ending for the couple, as Robert has now married Miriam and is enjoying success as a conductor.

background

Outtakes from Sam Peckinpah's war film Steiner - The Iron Cross were used for the war scenes .

Reviews

• Heyne Filmlexikon (1996): “The Führer likes the song 'Lili Marleen' so much that he gives the singer Willie a villa. Goebbels, on the other hand, has her shadowed and discovers her secret love for a Jewish composer. Fassbinder's masterful fusion of melodrama and contemporary history. "

• Lexicon of international films : “A widely freely designed spread story about the success of the song 'Lili Marleen' and its singer. The half-heartedness of the concentrated manner of the staging is more boring than human or politically interesting. "

Web links

• Lili Marleen in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Lili Marleen . Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, Berlin; Film and background information
• Lili Marleen on filmportal.de
• Lili Marleen atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lili Marleen. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .