Bibliograph

Marlene, Oko Film, Karel Dirka zeigt ; ein Film von Maximilian Schell ; Produzent, Karel Dirka ; Regie, Maximilian Schell ; Produzent, OKO-Filmproduktion, Karel Dirka

Type

Label

Marlene, Oko Film, Karel Dirka zeigt ; ein Film von Maximilian Schell ; Produzent, Karel Dirka ; Regie, Maximilian Schell ; Produzent, OKO-Filmproduktion, Karel Dirka

Language

ger

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Marlene

Oclc number

433180084

Responsibility statement

Oko Film, Karel Dirka zeigt ; ein Film von Maximilian Schell ; Produzent, Karel Dirka ; Regie, Maximilian Schell ; Produzent, OKO-Filmproduktion, Karel Dirka

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Summary

"In September of 1982, Oscar-winning actor and director Maximilian Schell ... arrived in Paris for a series of on-camera interviews with Marlene Dietrich intended for a documentary film on the screen icon's life and work. Despite having agreed to participate, the near-recluse Dietrich withdrew permission for her Judgement at Nuremburg co-star to film in her flat. Instead, in over 40 hours of audio-taped interviews, the 81-year-old screen legend provoked a battle royale of conversational mind games leading to unforgettably raw and truthful emotional revelations. Using Dietrich's candid, bruising, infuriating, and occasionally touching off-camera musings on childhood, marriage, sex, love, death, and the Holocaust, Schell 'sets her words, like a score, to the stunning film images of young Marlene' (Washington Post). The hypnotic final result---buoyed by self-reflexive making-of footage and an impressionistic re-creation of the sunless Paris flat where star and filmmaker fenced, fought, and ultimately connected---is the 'Sunset Boulevard of documentaries' (Washington Post)"--Container

Technique

live action

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