Veronika Voss
- Rosel Zech: Veronika Voss
- Hilmar Thate: Robert Krohn
- Cornelia Froboess: Henriette
- Annemarie Düringer: Dr. Marianne Katz
- Doris Schade: Josefa
- Erik Schumann: Dr. Edel
- Johanna Hofer: Old Woman
- Peter Berling: Film Producer - Fat man
- Günther Kaufmann: GI - Dealer
- Liselotte Eder: boss
- Herbert Steinmetz: gardener
- Elisabeth Volkmann: Grete
- Hans Wyprächtiger: Editor in Chief
- Peter Zadek: 2 Director
- Rudolf Platte: Old Man
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Visitors
Veronika Voss is a German film from 1982 by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The role of Veronika Voss is played by Rosel Zech. The male lead of the sports reporter Robert Krohn embodies Hilmar Thate.
Not a documentary, but heavily based on real events, the film tells the final years of the German UFA actress Sybille Schmitz, who was one of the favorite actresses Fassbinder. He writes in his Synopsis: The film is ... be an attempt at a "German" crime film without the usual strabismus according to American or French works of this genre. ...
Action
On a rainy night in Munich mid 50s sports reporter Robert Krohn meets the formerly successful UFA actress Veronika Voss. This will see him again soon. Also Krohn is interested in not only professionally for the unusual woman, but he must soon find that there is evidently some highly problematic involvement in their lives. Veronika Voss is trapped in her fantasy world as successful UFA actress who is no more, and depending on a doctor who has it in their assets and therefore provides them with morphine. Only gradually Krohn covers the lives of Veronika Voss on. Willing to convict the doctor, he sends his girlfriend Henriette to the doctor, but her cover is detected, and she is killed by a fake car accident. Veronika Voss also will eventually die: Without morphine locked in a room with a drawer full of sleeping pills, she takes her own life.
Trivia
In some scenes is heard softly in the background, once warbled by Günther Kaufmann and another time when the police appear in the practice of Dr. Marianne Katz, sounding from a radio, the country song Sixteen Tons. In another scene, Rosel Zech sings in a salon with piano accompaniment the pop song Memories Are Made of This.
Awards
- Golden Bear at the Berlinale 1982
In particular, the dramatic performance of Rosel Zech brought the film an extremely good reviews and made the actress an overnight star.
Reviews
" Penultimate film Fassbinder, who is an illusion -free image of the Federal Republic, the insert melodramatic style means seems a bit contrived "