Lili Marleen (1981)
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Cinematography by Xaver Schwarzenberger
R120 min62 frames
DramaWarRomance
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What is Lili Marleen about?
The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
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.
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What does the cinematography of Lili Marleen look like?
Sampled across 62 frames, the coverage of Lili Marleen leans on close-ups (37% of the sample) and medium shots (37%). Cinematographer Xaver Schwarzenberger keeps 69% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 84% of the frames. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 71% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Lili Marleen (1981) are #0f0d0d, #2f2c2c, #080f2f, #f4f3f1, #d5d1cc, #8b1310 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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