Veronika Voss (1982) [N/A]

Featuring:
Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess

Written by:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Pea Fröhlich
Peter Märthesheimer

Directed by:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder


Release Date:
May 13, 1982

Original Title:
Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss

Alternate Titles:
Veronika Voss
维洛妮卡佛丝
维罗尼卡·福斯的欲望
过气女伶
베로니카 포스의 갈망

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Laura Film
Maran Film
Rialto Film
Süddeutscher Rundfunk
Tango Film
Trio Film

Production Countries:
Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 105

Stars don't die, they fade away.

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.

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. Katz, 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.

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Rankings and Honors

Veronika Voss (1982) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes 76%
Awards Won: 4 wins & 4 nominations

Art Direction:
Walter E. Richarz

Assistant Camera:
Josef Vavra

Assistant Director:
Harry Baer
Karin Viesel
Tamara Kafka

Assistant Editor:
Angelika Deumling

Co-Producer:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Horst Wendlandt

Costume Assistant:
Elisabeth Blanke
Monika Jacobs

Costume Design:
Barbara Baum

Director:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director of Photography:
Xaver Schwarzenberger

Editor:
Juliane Lorenz

Extras Casting:
Helga Fischer

Key Grip:
Michael Stöger

Lighting Technician:
Ekkehard Heinrich

Makeup Artist:
Anni Nöbauer
Gerhard Nemetz

Original Music Composer:
Peer Raben

Producer:
Thomas Schühly
Bertram Vetter

Production Accountant:
Ursula Wöhrl

Production Design:
Rolf Zehetbauer

Production Secretary:
Gisela Schneider

Property Master:
Thomas Schappert
Frank D. Geuer

Screenplay:
Pea Fröhlich
Peter Märthesheimer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Second Assistant Camera:
Suzanne Phillip

Sound Assistant:
Rupert Medele

Sound Designer:
Vladimir Vizner

Still Photographer:
Leo Weisse

Unit Manager:
Michael Bohnstengel
Michael McLernon
Wulf Gasthaus

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