i loooove this movie


why no comments? come on~

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I loooove this movie, too!

& I love Beijing!

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Real crap. It's plain he made this for a Hollywood audience, but it's badly directed and loses pace and moreover, fluffs up the timelines (obviously it was decked out for people who wouldn't know the events of WWII well enough to bother!)
Did you notice, in the early part when she's been forced to stay in Germany and is recording the song, they switch on the radio and suddenly hear Hitler bolting war at Poland. Just a few scenes earlier, we were at the Kristallnacht, which in fact occurred ten months earlier, but the story is told in such a way that it's supposed to move from day to day (if ten months had passed with her stuck in Germany, Robert and his Dad would surely have regarded the Willi episode as history - it would have been hard even to keep in touch by letters or phone across the border, and the old man would have forced him not to write to her!)
-Of course this means also I don't feel Giannini is convincing in his romance with Willi. The opening seemed good, a drama about twisted loyalties in a group of emigré German Jews (you guess their kind of business before it's actually stated) but once you see how perfunctorily events and people are treated you lose all interest.

The stunts aand the cutting between Willi singing and soldiers jumping in front of fire are awful too. Sentimental *beep*

-and I saw this in the German-dubbed version. In fact, the dubbing is very skilful, but how it comes across with everybody speaking the King's English I don't want to think of. There are many better Fassbinder films around.

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What do you mean with German dubbed version? The original version is in German and of course Lale Anderson sings in German.

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acutally the original version is in english
Juliane Lorenz talk about this on her interview on the extras of the dvd of Lili Marleen
it was dubbed in german for the german premiere

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