Lili Marleen

Drama, Music, Romance

Hanna Schygulla	Willie
Giancarlo Giannini	Robert
Mel Ferrer	David Mendelsson
Udo Kier	Drewitz
Hark Bohm	Taschner
Gottfried John	Aaron
Christine Kaufmann	Miriam
Karin Baal	Anna Lederer
Karl-Heinz von Hassel	Henkel
Erik Schumann	von Strehlow
Roger Fritz	Kauffmann
Rainer Will	Bernt
Raúl Gimenez	Blonsky
Adrian Hoven	Ginsberg
Willy Harlander	Prosel
Barbara Valentin	Eva
Helen Vita	Grete
Elisabeth Volkmann	Marika
Lilo Pempeit	Tamara

Director	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Producer	Luggi Waldleitner; Enzo Peri
Writer	Joshua Sinclair; Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cinematography	Michael Ballhaus; Xaver Schwarzenberger
Musician	Peer Raben

In the early days of World War II, a Swiss cabaret singer named Willie (Hanna Schygulla) discovers her composer boyfriend Robert Mendelsson (Giancarlo Giannini) is not only Jewish, but is a member of the underground resistance to Nazis. She has become a big star among the Nazi hierarchy in Germany and begins to tour the nation to keep up the Nazi morale. Mendelsson’s father David (Mel Ferrer) does not approve, nor like her ties to the Third Reich. Though she takes a high-ranking Nazi lover named Henkel (Karl Heinz von Hassel), she tries to remain above being labeled a Nazi collaborator. When the war ends, they are left to pick up the pieces of their lives.