"Lili Marleen", Germany, 1981
Source and link: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/026951-00 ... i-marleen/A few years before the outbreak of the Second World War, Robert, who comes from a middle-class Jewish family, and Willie, a German bar singer, fall in love. But Robert's family is against the connection. - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film (1981) is a melodrama that shows how political corruption penetrates private life in times of war. With Hanna Schygulla.
Zurich, 1938: The love between the German bar singer Willie Bunterberg and Robert Mendelsohn, the son of wealthy Jewish parents, is ill-fated from the start. The persecution of the Jews in Germany is becoming more and more terrible and there is a war atmosphere everywhere.
Robert's father is also against the relationship between the two and ensures that Willie is deported to their home country. In Germany, her song "Lili Marleen" was broadcast on the radio and became an instant hit. Willie became a star overnight. While she was increasingly involved in Nazi propaganda campaigns, Robert was arrested by the Gestapo. With secret documents about extermination camps , which Willie smuggles out of Poland, she now tries to save Robert's life.
Dame Lale Andersen, the true story behind the movie: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lale_Andersen
LALE ANDERSEN, "Lili Marleen" (1938)
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