Veronika voss torrent

Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Top credits Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Top cast Edit. Cornelia Froboess Henriette as Henriette. Marianne Katz as Dr. Marianne Katz. Doris Schade Josefa as Josefa. Erik Schumann Dr. Edel as Dr. Peter Berling Filmproduzent as Filmproduzent …. Lilo Pempeit Chehm as Chehm. Volker Spengler 1. Regisseur as 1. Elisabeth Volkmann Grete as Grete. Peter Zadek 2. Regisseur as 2. Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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.

Did you know Edit. Trivia Based on the true story of German film star Sybille Schmitz. Goofs The film is set in but the song "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton, released in , is heard on the radio a number of times.

Quotes Dr. User reviews 28 Review. Top review. The search for congealed history. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's second-but-last film does not show primarily the life and downfall of the UFA-star Sybille Schmitz, but gives, at the hand of the Schmitz-inspired, yet fictive character Veronika Voss an unvarnished and hopeless picture of the Bundesrepublik Germany in the 50ies.

One rainy night, he meets, in a little forest amidst of Berlin, a crying little bundle of mensch who seems to have completely lost her orientation. Veronika Voss has never been one of my favorites by Fassbinder, but the aesthetic is incredible. Every frame captured by cinematographer Xaver Schwarzenberger could be paused, removed and framed in a museum, so artful are the black-and-white shots that are diametrically opposed to his ultra-colorful visuals in Lola a year before.

No doubt this use of light is remarkable, especially the blindingly white interiors that define a coldly clinical atmosphere, but I can't help wishing the director's story focused less on the comparatively uninteresting side characters and more on the titular UFA diva. By the way, in favor of full transparency, I adjusted the rating on my recent review of Chinese Roulette, which I…. Never making it big in America, Veronika was only ever accepted as a legitimate actress by the Third Reich.

For this it is all the more successful. Veronika Voss comes from near the end of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's career, when his films became more stylised than ever. Most obviously, the black and white cinematography sets a nostalgic tone for the picture. It's also quite distinctive, not really being greyscale but often filled with textureless areas of black or white. It's about a country trying to move on from the past by pretending the good times have always been.

It either can't or won't acknowledge the reality of what has happened. It just wants to be dependent on the new miracle or otherwise die. Side characters here show sides Germany has to consider. There's the camp survivor, a bitter reminder…. You kind of feel the coldness of this story right from the get-go. But as we go on, the cold air starts trickling in little by lots, in the forms of haunting country music radio or the too-bright white hospital or just a plain uneasy feeling of what certain characters are going to do or say.

Telling the tale of a faded actress from the war years who has now plummeted on difficult times, Veronika Voss is loosely inspired by the career and tragic life of German actress Sybille Schmitz, the star of F W Murnau's Vampyr. It finally attained its director Rainer Werner Fassbinder the Golden Bear, an award which had eluded the German filmmaker for quite some time.

Taking much of its essence from Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard , it's shot in a seductive monochrome with a calculated prevalence for camera flares, particularly in scenes that exemplify its protagonists declining career.

Fassbinder conveys a few dangers about postwar German optimism and seizes the opportunity to take swings at the country's economic recovery alongside his more familiar themes of estrangement, loneliness, sexual conflict and despondency. Veronika Voss is one of Fassbinder's most visually striking films of his creative and productive career. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps.

Where to watch. Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Juliane Lorenz. Walter E. Peer Raben.