Marlene

Marlene (1984)

Retrospective on the career of enigmatic screen diva Marlene Dietrich.

Date of release
1984-10-01
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Maximilian Schell

Casting

Interesting facts

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Marlene is a 1984 West German documentary film co-written and directed by Maximilian Schell about German-American actress Marlene Dietrich. It was produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk and OKO-Film and released by Futura Film in West Germany and by Alive Films in the United States.

Background

Marlene Dietrich and Maximilian Schell had worked together on Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961. By the late 1970s, Dietrich had become a virtual recluse in her Paris apartment on the Avenue Montaigne. However, financial issues inspired her to develop a television documentary about her work.

Because Dietrich did not wish to be photographed, the film consists of an audio commentary and the visuals illustrating her career by showing film clips and stills from her films, as well as newsreel footage. She was contracted for "40 hours of interviews", as she reminds Schell during one of their exchanges.

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