Cornelia Froboess,
Doris Schade,
Erik Schumann,
Gunther Kaufmann,
Hilmar Thate
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Rosel Zech plays a dissipated 1940s German movie star who, 10 years after the war, has become a morphine addict. Her claim to fame: She used to be a close, personal friend of Nazi propaganda minister ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 30, 2003
Stats: 24 reviews
A slow mellow haze of morphine induced drama. Tragic and equally sweet. A blinding white and silver glow portrays the decadence of an aging films star quite perfectly. It would almost be inappropriate to relate this film to Sunset Boulevard, but the theme is very similar.
It see...( read more)
I feel I may be cut for comparing RW Fassbinder to Tarantion, BUT, he works Veronika Voss in the same way QT works all his films. No doubt Fassbinder is a fan of old Hollywood noir and melodrama, and you can see his love for it in the film as it seems he really wants to make one....( read more)
Early on, Voss says to her new acquaintance Robert that light and shadow are the two secrets of film making. Fassbinder uses this to his advantage to contrast good and evil yet in a deceiving tone uses bright sets and lights in the offices of the film's antagonist: an evil doctor...( read more)
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