Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Vos

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Feature FilmDE 1981104'

Sunday, 3. Jul 2005, 16:00

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Fassbinder’s penultimate cinema film and the final and most gloomy part of a trilogy about the fates of some women in post-war Germany (following DIE EHE DER MARIA BRAUN and LOLA). Veronika Voss is an aging Ufa star attempting a comeback in Adenauer Germany. Sports reporter Robert Krohn meets her by coincidence and develops an interest in her bizarre life, owing equally to his professional background and the compassion he feels for her: the has-been star now lives in a doctor’s office, where the woman doctor keeps her addicted to morphine.

DIE SEHNSUCHT DER VERONIKA VOSS resonates with Fassbinder’s love for the film noir of the ‘40s as well as echoes of German problem films of the ‘50s, not the least through cinematographer Xaver Schwarzenberger’s expressive black and white photography.

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Screenplay

Peter Märthesheimer, Pea Fröhlich, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Producers

Bertram Vetter

Executive Producers

Thomas Schühly

Cinematography

Xaver Schwarzenberger

Editing

Juliane Lorenz

Music

Peer Raben

Sound

Vladimir Vizner

Production Design

Rolf Zehetbauer

Cast

Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer, Doris Schade, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Johanna Hofer, Rudolf Platte, Eric Schumann

Co-Executive Producers

Horst Wendlandt, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Production Manager

Thomas Schühly

Production

Laura-Film, Tango-Film, Rialto-Film, Trio-Film, Maran-Film, SDR

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