Rainer Werner Fassbinder-Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982)

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Date: March 17, 2007

Rainer Werner Fassbinder-Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982)
| 704.2 MB | Runtime 1:44:28 | b/w |
Language : German / 2nd Audio Track: English commentary
Optional subtitles : English
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Once-beloved Third Reich-era starlet Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech) lives in obscurity in postwar Munich. Struggling for survival and haunted by past glories, the forgotten star encounters sportswriter Robert Krohn (Hilmar Thate) in a rain-swept park and intrigues him with her mysterious beauty. As their unlikely relationship develops, Krohn comes to discover the dark secrets behind the faded actress' demise. Based on the true story of a World War II movie star, Veronika Voss is wicked satire disguised as a 1950s thriller. (-DVD cover)

Munich, 1955: A sports journalist meets Veronika Voss, an UFA actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels. Now declining, Voss is kept by her "kind" doctor, Dr. Kart, supplying her house, food, clean clothes and her favourite: morphine. Voss, trying to come back towards the cinema, cannot perform an absurdly simple scene, but it attracts the attention of the journalist, who suspects that something's very wrong regarding her doctor. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0084654/plotsummary)

Veronika Voss is a fading star with ties to the Nazi regime, and has clearly forfeited popularity in Germany after the war. She is mostly not even recognized in public anymore but still makes a scene wherever she happens to be. Soon the sports reporter Robert Krohn, who she has met on a rainy night and has started a ill-fated affair with, realizes that she has become a morphine addict, relying on the mysterious Dr. Marianne Katz, even living in her flat. (www.amazon.com)

Though Robert Krohn plays a major part in the film, and is at times even more present than Veronika Voss herself, he serves as a character rather as a guide through the film and the different aspects portrayed within it. (www.amazon.com)

Dr. Marianne Katz, who counts even concentration camp survivors amongst her morphine-addicted clients is exploiting them by issuing out the expensive drug in exchange for their belongings. The addictive poison she is issuing out, the morphine takes on a symbolic role describing a state within German society. A Germany that is also more and more co-dependent, as a country (symbolised with the U.S. soldier) and its inhabitants, too. (www.amazon.com)

A Key term of the film remains the UfA(whose style is clearly shown by the way the film is shot, composed and edited), and Veronika Voss’ preference under the old regime, which has now brought her into her inescapable victim role, being incapable of adapting, and to live on. (www.amazon.com)

Fassbinder’s hatred is quite obviously directed at the power cartel, that is issuing ‘drugs’ to people, that they may not really be in need of. Krohn, who takes on the detective role throughout the film, has no chance in winning against this conspiracy. (www.amazon.com)

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