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Veronika Voss (1982)

Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (original title)
R | | Drama | 13 May 1982 (Netherlands)
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A washed up UFA actress, kept by her doctor, raises suspicion in a sports journalist.

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Cast overview, first billed only:
... Veronika Voss
... Robert Krohn
... Henriette
... Dr. Marianne Katz
Doris Schade ... Josefa
Erik Schumann ... Dr. Edel
... Filmproduzent / Dicker Mann
... G.I. / Dealer (as Günter Kaufmann)
Sonja Neudorfer ... Verkäuferin
Lilo Pempeit ... Chehm
... 1. Regisseur
Herbert Steinmetz ... Gärtner
... Grete
Hans Wyprächtiger ... Chefredakteur
Peter Zadek ... 2. Regisseur
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Munich, 1955: A sports journalist meets Veronika Voss, an UFA actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels. Now declining, Voss is kept by her "kind" doctor, Dr. Katz, supplying her house, food, clean clothes and her favourite: morphine. Voss, trying to come back towards the cinema, cannot perform an absurdly simple scene, but it attracts the attention of the journalist, who suspects that something's very wrong regarding her doctor. Written by Sdicht <sdicht@hotmail.com>

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The film takes place in 1955. See more »

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The film is set in 1955 but the song "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton, released in 1959, is heard on the radio a number of times. See more »

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Alter Mann: When you read a book to the end, it's time to close it.
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A melancholy tribute to the black and white films of the past
19 August 1999 | by – See all my reviews

Rosel Zech, who from some angles reminds us of Marlene Dietrich or Delphine Seyrig, plays Veronika Voss, a fading German movie star whose story is a European take on Sunset Boulevard. The film uses black and white photography to create effects of light, shadow, and pure luminosity that work brilliantly such as the opening scene in the tramway car, or the interior of the Dr. Katz's clinic. The scene where Veronika sings Memories Are Made Of This in a low husky voice that recalls Dietrich at her world weary best caps it all off perfectly.
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