Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Lili Marleen (1981)

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In Switzerland German singer 'Wilkie' falls in love with Jewish composer 'Robert' who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees...

David Kehr, Chicago Reader wrote:

This 1981 big-budget, international coproduction, shot in English, was supposed to be a mass-market hit for Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It didn't work out that way--does it ever?--but dubbed hastily in German, it makes a mildly interesting entry in the Fassbinder canon. Hanna Schygulla is a cabaret singer whose recording of a World War I song, "Lili Marleen," becomes a hit in Nazi Germany. She becomes a propaganda star of the new regime, which first embarrasses and then benefits her Swiss lover (Giancarlo Giannini) and his millionaire father (Mel Ferrer), the head of a Jewish anti-Nazi group. The meanings are banal and the pace is heavy, but Fassbinder's use of color--as throughout his late period--is superb.

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Monday, June 21, 2010

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Lili Marleen (1981)

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