Marlene

Film Description

‘Marlene’ is no standard movie star documentary. It is a mystery story, a discourse on truth and fiction, a battle with a sacred monster, a caustic comedy of errors, and the story of the making of a film all rolled into one. Despite personally selecting Schell to make the film about her, Dietrich soon fell out with the director, which rescued the film from conventionality and turned it into a unique and richly entertaining record of an encounter with a real-life legend.

Schell carefully fuses a selection of audio interviews with excerpts of Marlene's performances and the dilemmas he faced whilst making the documentary to unique effect, revealing her mysterious nature for what it really is: cantankerous, terse, challenging, fascinating and, at times, surprisingly forthcoming and meaningful.

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• Contemporary Film
• Documentaries / Biographical
• Documentaries / Cinema & Film

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Film Details

Director	Maximilian Schell
Year	1984
Countries & Regions	European Film, German Film

Cast

Annie Albers, Bernard Hall, Marta Rakosnik, Patricia Schell, Ivana Spinell, William Von Stranz

Technical Details

Certificate	E
Length	91 mins
Publisher	PARKC
Format	DVD Colour
Region	2
Cat No	PC0001
Main Language	English / German

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