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Lili Marleen

1981
Germany
feature film - Drama
120 min. (3295 m.)
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Hanna Schygulla (Willie Bunterberg); Giancarlo Giannini (Robert Mendelssohn); Mel Ferrer (David Mendelssohn); Karl-Heinz von Hassel (Hans Henkel); Erik Schumann (Erich von Strehlow); Hark Bohm (Pianist Taschner); Gottfried John (Aaron); Karin Baal (Anna Lederer); Christine Kaufmann (Miriam Glaubrecht); Udo Kier (Werner Drewitz); Roger Fritz (Kauffmann); Rainer Will (Bernt Lederer); Raúl Gimenez (Blonsky); Adrian Hoven (Ernst Ginsberg); Willy Harlander (Theo Prosel); Barbara Valentin (Eva); Helen Vita (Grete); Elisabeth Volkmann (Marika); Liselotte Eder (Tamara Mendelssohn); Traute Hoess (polish woman); Brigitte Mira (neighbor); Herb Andress (Leutnant Karl-Heinz Reintgen); Michael McLernon (border guard); Jürgen Draeger (journalist); Rudolf Lenz (Dr. Glaubrecht); Harry Baer (Norbert Schultze); Toni Netzle (Mrs Prosel); Daniel Schmid; Peter Chatel; Volker Eckstein; Helmut Petigk; Werner Asam; Dirk Galuba; Sonja Neudorfer; Irm Hermann (nurse); Herbert Steinmetz (doctor); Alexander Allerson (Goedecke); Christine de Loup (news speaker); Franz Buchrieser (Thorne); Volker Spengler (border guard); Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Günther Weisenborn); Paul Felix; Arno E. Hausch; Peter Kollek; Jörg Liebenfels; Alexander Malachovsky; Josef Moosholzer; Erich Sengmüller; Artur Albrecht; Milan Bor

Direction

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Assistant director: Renate Leiffer

Writing

Screenplay: Manfred Purzer

Screenplay contributor: Joshua Sinclair; Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Based on: Lale Andersen (biographie "Der Himmel hat viele Farben")

Script supervisor: Karin Viesel

Dialogue: Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Shaun McGill; Werner Uschkurat

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Xaver Schwarzenberger; Michael Ballhaus

Assistant camera / focus puller: Josef Vavra; Christian Sebald

Optical effects: Joachim Schulz

Still photographer: Karl Reiter

Lighting design: Helmut Flieger; Heinrich Grob; Siegfried Gundel; Alwin Schuler

Decor

Production design: Rolf Zehetbauer; Herbert Strabel

Prop master: Richard Eglseder; Hans Günter Stangl; Hans Stangl; Frank Geuer

Construction manager: Robert Wischert; Klaus Emberger; Michael Behrens

Make-up artist: Edwin Erfmann; Anni Nöbauer; Hedy Polensky; Ingrid Thier

Costume design: Barbara Baum; Rolf Rainer Stegemann; Max Dietl; Egon Strasser

Wardrobe: Marianne Schulz; Friedel Schröder; Georg Kuhn

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Juliane Maria Lorenz

Assistant editor: Claudia Wutz

Sound: Karsten Ullrich; Tonstudio Meilhaus

Sound assistant: Hans-Reinhard Weiss

Foley artist: Hans Walter Kramski; Mel Kutbay

Audio mixing: Milan Bor

Choreography: Dieter Gackstetter

Music

Music: Norbert Schultze; Peer Raben

Singer: Hanna Schygulla

Lyrics: Hans Leip

Production

Producer: Luggi Waldleitner

Co-Producer: Enzo Peri; Horst Wendlandt

Editorial department: Benigna von Keyserlingk

Unit production manager: Konstantin Thoeren

Location manager: Franz Achter; Gerhard Jakubowski; Josef Moosholzer; Michael Zöllner

Production assistant: Carla Thoeren; Michael Waldleitner

Companies

Production company: Rialto Film Preben Philipsen GmbH & Co. KG; Roxy Film GmbH & Co. KG; Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR); CIP Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH