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Veronika Voss

Country: Germany, Language: German, 104 mins

Original Title

Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
  • Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Pea Frohlich
  • Producer: Thomas Schuhly

CGiii Comment

Fassbinder does 'Sunset Boulevard' without the panache...

Washed out movie stars are...unpleasant. Watching films about washed out movie stars is tortuous - especially when they are made by Fassbinder.


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The(ir) Blurb...

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.

Cast & Characters

Rosel Zech as Veronika Voss;
Hilmar Thate as Robert Krohn;
Cornelia Froboess as Henriette;
Annemarie Duringer as Dr. Marianne Katz;
Doris Schade as Josefa;
Erik Schumann as Dr. Edel;
Peter Berling as Filmproduzent / Dicker Mann;
Gunther Kaufmann as G.I. / Dealer;
Sonja Neudorfer as Verkauferin;
Lilo Pempeit as Chehm;
Volker Spengler as 1. Regisseur;
Herbert Steinmetz as Gartner;
Elisabeth Volkmann as Grete;
Hans Wyprachtiger as Chefredakteur;
Peter Zadek as 2. Regisseur