Veronika Voss (1982)
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genres - Drama, Historical Film |
Sub-Genres - Psychological Drama |
Run Time - 104 min. |
Countries - Germany |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Originally Die Sehnsucht de Veronika Voss, this Rainer Werner Fassbinder spin on Sunset Boulevard stars Rosel Zech as film actress Veronika Voss. Once the toast of Germany, Veronika had allegedly been an intimate of Joseph Gobbels. But the Third Reich is dead...and Veronika may as well be. Playing to an increasingly diminishing fan following, Veronika turns to drugs to cushion her against the cruelties of life. Her self-destruction is accelerated by her "Doctor Feelgood" Annemaire Duringer, who plys Veronika with morphine in order to gain control of the actress's money and property. Well-meaning sportswriter Hilmar Thate tries to save Veronika from herself, sacrificing his own personal happiness -- and the life of his girlfriend Cornelia Froeboess -- in the process. Allegedly an amalgam of several true stories, Veronika Voss is the last of Fassbinder's "postwar trilogy" (the first two were The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lola).
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Keywords
abuse, actor, addiction, corruption, drugs, film, stars [celebrities], suicide
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High Artistic Quality