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Lili Marleen

Year:

1981

Duration:

120 min | Brazil:111 min

Genres:

Drama | Music | Romance | War

IMDB rate:

7.2

Director:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Details

Country: West Germany

Release Date: 1981-01-14

Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany

Earnings

Gross: ITL 1,856,800,000 (Italy) ( 1981)

Cast

Actor

Character

Giancarlo Giannini

Lili Marleen

Hanna Schygulla

Willie

Mel Ferrer

David Mendelsson

Karl-Heinz von Hassel

Henkel (as Karl Heinz von Hassel)

Erik Schumann

von Strehlow

Hark Bohm

Taschner

Gottfried John

Aaron

Karin Baal

Anna Lederer

Christine Kaufmann

Miriam

Udo Kier

Drewitz

Roger Fritz

Kauffmann

Rainer Will

Bernt

Raúl Gimenez

Blonsky (as Raul Giminez)

Adrian Hoven

Ginsberg

Willy Harlander

Prosel

Barbara Valentin

Eva

Helen Vita

Grete

Elisabeth Volkmann

Marika

Lilo Pempeit

Tamara

Traute Hoess

Polin

Brigitte Mira

Nachbarin

Herb Andress

Reintgen

Michael McLernon

Schweizer Grenzbeamter

Jürgen Draeger

Journalist (as Jürgen Dräger)

Rudolf Lenz

Dr. Glaubrecht

Harry Baer

Norbert Schultze

Toni Netzle

Frau Prosel

Daniel Schmid

Pförtner

Peter Chatel

SA-Mann

Volker Eckstein

1. SD-Mann

Helmut Petigk

2. SD-Mann

Werner Asam

3. SD-Mann

Dirk Galuba

4. SD-Mann

Sonja Neudorfer

Frau Buerli

Irm Hermann

Krankenschwester

Herbert Steinmetz

Arzt

Alexander Allerson

Goedecke

Kristine De Loup

Nachrichtensprecherin (as Christine de Loupe)

Adam & Eve

(uncredited)

Franz Buchrieser

Thome (uncredited)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Günther Weissenborn (uncredited)

Michele Oliveri

Soldat (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Shot in English for American distribution; later dubbed in German

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The character of Willi is loosely based on the German singer Lale Andersen who was the real Lili Marleen.

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West Germany's official Foreign Language Film submission at the 54th Academy Awards. The film failed to be nominated.

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Goofs

The German officer, Kaufmann, who arrests Robert on the train wears the uniform of an SS-Gruppenfuhrer (General) - it is highly unlikely that an SS General of such rank would be checking identity papers at random on a train.

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Robert is put in a Gestapo cell to find out who he is; apparently at least a week passes. Finally the ruthless ones find out that he knows Willi, the star, and decide to have them confronted, yet at this point he looks his clean-shaved best and is even better dressed than on the night of his arrest.

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After having tried to commit suicide, Willi is seen performing "Lili Marleen" in the Berlin Sportpalast as part of a deal with the Nazis, dazzlingly dressed up in front of thousands, and the event is transmitted live. Then suddenly all is held up by the announcement that all German forces have surrendered (VE Day, May 8, 1945). Of course, in the final months of the regime no-one would bother about arranging a sumptuous live transmission of music; by this time, Berlin was a heap of rubble.

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