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Bookmark this pageLili Marleen (1980)
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Fassbinder's determinedly 'tasteless' brew of sentiment and swastikas annexes the original two-way forces' favourite to a totally apocryphal cloak-and-dagger romance, camped up into a one-song musical comedy. Its basic joke is that Schygulla, required to sing 'Lili Marlene' umpteen times, can't sing; but when a variation on that has her Jewish lover (Giannini) tortured with the song by his German gaolers, one's incredulous guffaws just keep rolling. Elaborate proof that the devil really does have all the best tunes.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Producer: Luggi Waldleitner
Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl Heinz von Hassel, Erik Schumann, Hark Bohm, Rainer Werner Fassbinder full cast
Duration: 120 mins
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