Set in the 1950s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s late masterpiece centres on the relationship between a young sports journalist and an ageing movie star, once a favourite of Joseph Goebbels, who cannot accept that her career is now over.
Shot in gleaming black and white, this is an eerie vision of post-war Germany, a haunted world of shadows, secrets and suppressed memories.
Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982)
A young sports journalist meets an ageing movie star in this eerie vision of 1950s Germany.
- 1982 Federal Republic of Germany
- Directed by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Produced by
- Thomas Schühly
- Written by
- Peter Märthesheimer, Pea Fröhlich, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Featuring
- Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess
- Running time
- 104 minutes
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