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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 Liebermann , who is active in saving his fellow Jews.
Lilli Marlene. (film) Lilli Marlene is a 1950 British war film aimed for the US market and directed by Arthur Crabtree. It stars Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, and Richard Murdoch. Stanley Baker is seen in one of his early support roles.
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.
Dec 27, 2014 · Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. An extravagant story of love, war and propaganda in the shadows of Nazi Germany, Fassbinder's "Lili Marleen" is, ironical...
Apr 15, 2013 · Subtitled clip from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lili Marleen (1981): Willie (Hanna Schygulla) performs her explosive hit song.
Synopsis. Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well.
Now in “Lili Marleen” here is another woman, named Willie, whose public life parallels the rise and fall of Nazism. The movie opens in 1938, late for a well-informed German to be naive about the Nazi party, but Willie doesn't seem very tuned in. She sings in a cabaret, she falls in love with Giancarlo Giannini, and she learns that Giannini ...
