Rosel Zech,
Hilmar Thate,
Annemarie Düringer,
Doris Schade,
Cornelia Froboess
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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... read more
DVD Release Date: September 30, 2003
Stats: 83 reviews
with an icy visual style even more marvelous than 'maria braun', this thinly disguised biopic of the downfall of a famous actress of the third reich is absolutely chilling to watch. fantastic high key b&w photography renders many scenes almost completely white, with odd lighting... read more
Chilling! Fassbinder's visual technique complements the morphine induced highs and lows experienced by the star. A harrowing satire of the fickleness of the film industry, public perception, addiction, and the parasites that prosper through exploitation.
This is from the Criterion Collection, and like most films from the Criterion Collection it takes over half the movie to really get into it. I saw the The BRD Trilogy: Veronika Voss (1982) version. About a Morphine addict. Had english subtitles, Movie is in German. Its rather good.
A bizarre black and white film, in German, with subtitles, that tells the tale of a once famous actress who has fallen on hard times and has come under the sway of an unscrupulous medical practitioner who has a vested interest in her patient's death. These are not very likable pe... read more
Basically a German counterpart to "Sunset Boulevard," "Veronika Voss" is a portrait of a fading '50s film queen who's out of work, hooked on morphine but still carries herself like a superstar. Her drug problem comes courtesy of a wicked female physician who keeps her addicted, d... read more
I feel I may be cut for comparing RW Fassbinder to Tarantion, BUT, he works Veronika Voss in the same way QT works all his films. No doubt Fassbinder is a fan of old Hollywood noir and melodrama, and you can see his love for it in the film as it seems he really wants to make one.... read more
Early on, Voss says to her new acquaintance Robert that light and shadow are the two secrets of film making. Fassbinder uses this to his advantage to contrast good and evil yet in a deceiving tone uses bright sets and lights in the offices of the film's antagonist: an evil doctor... read more
I take it back. I should really dock points from The Good German now because this movie honest-to-God looks like it was filmed in the fifties. Yes, Good German does a pretty good job, but this movie doesn't seem forced at all. If I handn't known about the BRD Tri... read more
A chilly, tough, wicked satire disguised as the sort of schmaltzy, black-and-white, 1950's melodrama. Full Review
The situation soon freezes into an inert, rather facile metaphor for America's postwar domination of the German soul. Full Review
One of the most stylish of Fassbinder's many films. Full Review
This was the last film that Rainer Werner Fassbinder completed before his suicide. Full Review
Fassbinder's work here is muddy at best. His black and white cinematography limits his typically washed-out color palette while failing to connect us emotionally with the bygone era. Full Review
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