---
title: 'Lili Marleen (1981)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Rainer Werner Fassbinder'
released: '1981-01-15'
runtime_minutes: 116
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/lili-marleen-1981'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082661/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Lili Marleen (1981)

1981 · 116 min · Drama · Germany


## Synopsis

Lili Marleen is a 1981 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder that stars Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, and Mel Ferrer. Set in the time of the Third Reich, the film recounts the love affair between a German singer who becomes the darling of the nation, based on Lale Andersen, and a Swiss conductor, based on Rolf Liebermann, who is active in saving his fellow Jews. Though the screenplay uses the autobiographical novel Der Himmel hat viele Farben by Lale Andersen, her last husband, Arthur Beul, said the film bears little relation to her real life.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-werner-fassbinder)
- **Screenplay:** [Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-werner-fassbinder), [Lale Andersen](https://cinepixo.com/people/lale-andersen), [Manfred Purzer](https://cinepixo.com/people/manfred-purzer), [Joshua Sinclair](https://cinepixo.com/people/joshua-sinclair), [Werner Uschkurat](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-uschkurat)
- **Editor:** [Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-werner-fassbinder), [Juliane Lorenz](https://cinepixo.com/people/juliane-lorenz)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Peer Raben](https://cinepixo.com/people/peer-raben)
- **Producer:** [Horst Wendlandt](https://cinepixo.com/people/horst-wendlandt)
- **Director of Photography:** [Michael Ballhaus](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-ballhaus), [Xaver Schwarzenberger](https://cinepixo.com/people/xaver-schwarzenberger)

## Cast

- [Rainer Will](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-will)
- [Volker Eckstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/volker-eckstein)
- [Dirk Galuba](https://cinepixo.com/people/dirk-galuba)
- [Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://cinepixo.com/people/rainer-werner-fassbinder)
- [Herbert Steinmetz](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-steinmetz)
- [Brigitte Mira](https://cinepixo.com/people/brigitte-mira)
- [Alexander Allerson](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-allerson)
- [Peter Chatel](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-chatel)
- [Adrian Hoven](https://cinepixo.com/people/adrian-hoven)
- [Roger Fritz](https://cinepixo.com/people/roger-fritz)
- [Liselotte Eder](https://cinepixo.com/people/liselotte-eder)
- [Toni Netzle](https://cinepixo.com/people/toni-netzle)
- [Irm Hermann](https://cinepixo.com/people/irm-hermann)
- [Karl-Heinz von Hassel](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-heinz-von-hassel)
- [Giancarlo Giannini](https://cinepixo.com/people/giancarlo-giannini)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/lili-marleen-1981
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