198 1 color film 12 1 min
Roxie Film Company of the Federal Republic of Germany /Rialto /CIP Co-production.
Director: Lena Werner fassbinder Screenplay: Manfred Putzelena Werner fassbinder Photography: Xavo Schwartzenberg Main Actor: Hannah Shigula (as Willie) Giancarlo Ghianni (as Robert)
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From 65438 to 0938, in Zurich, the young Swiss composer Robert and the beautiful young German singer Willie were immersed in the happiness of love. Robert's father Mendelssohn, a Jew, led a secret organization in Switzerland to help Jews escape from Germany. Robert often goes to Germany without telling Willie about the tasks arranged by the organization. Willie met Henkel, a German, alone in a bar in Zurich. Henkel invited her to perform in Berlin. Robert returned home from his task and told Willie the secret, which was opposed by all the members of the secret group. Worried that his son's relationship with the "Aryan woman" would bring danger to the secret group, Mendelssohn set a trap, sent Robert to Germany again to carry out the task, and approved Willie to go with him. As Robert's fiancee, Willie met Anna and her son Berndt from the German secret liaison station. When they returned to the Swiss border after completing their mission, the border inspector refused Willie entry on the grounds of the order of the authorities. Robert and Willie were disappointed by the prosecutor's sudden attack, and they hugged each other in pain. Make an appointment to meet at four o'clock the next afternoon. Robert was determined to go back to his lawyer, and Willie trudged towards the German border.
When Robert got home, he learned the inside story and scolded his father for buying a lot of bonds when they were not there. He asked his father to hand over the bonds to let Willie come back, but he was refused.
The next day, on the Swiss border, Wei Li, who had been longing for a long time, met Robert with joy and sorrow in his heart. When Wei Li learned that she could not enter Switzerland without raising 6800 francs, she broke up with Robert painfully and returned to Germany.
In order to get rid of the predicament in Germany, Willie turned to the Nazi Henkel for help, and he introduced Willie to the opera house. During the performance, she sang a song called Lily Marilyn, which caused a sensation among the soldiers in the audience. Willie was very sad. She thought the first performance was a failure. Henkel decided to record this song. While Willie was recording an album, Robert, who was bent on Willie, took the opportunity to visit Willie with Anna's help. Two lovesick hearts embraced each other tightly, and a pair of lovers left as soon as they met.
"Lily Marilyn" once spread inside and outside the army. Whether it's the front position of the battlefield under artillery fire or the barracks post in the rear, whether it's the soldiers in charge or the soldiers on guard, as long as they hear Lily Marilyn, they are immersed in singing. This song became the spiritual food of the soldiers, and the Nazis used her to sing everywhere and arrange large-scale performances to express their condolences to the army. Willie suddenly became a star, followed by money, villas and status, and Hitler personally met her. Robert misses his lover in Switzerland and is listless all day. After hearing Willie's songs and rumors about Willie on the radio, he was in great pain. He put on makeup, sneaked into Germany under a pseudonym, and risked his life to see Wei Li, trying to find out her position and attitude. Willie learned that Robert had arrived at the end of the performance and couldn't wait to find an excuse to leave to see Robert. In a humble apartment, Willie watched her lover fall in love with joy and fear. She knows Robert's danger. She confessed to Robert that she only sang one song and did nothing else, and said that she would always love Robert and never change. Just as they were in love, the Gestapo erected a sentry outside the hut, waiting for dawn. Robert was arrested by the Gestapo before leaving Germany by train. Robert denied his identity and relationship with Willie. The Nazis imprisoned him in a small room surrounded by Willie's portrait and Willie's songs were played on the record in the room. Facing the smiling Willie in the painting and listening to the piercing song, Robert looked pale and miserable.
In order to save Robert, Willie accepted the task of an underground organization and went to the front to try to expose fascism in this film. Wei Li toured the front, got the film with the help of the underground organization, and escaped the Nazi crazy search under the cover of Nazi officers who loved her, and finally sent the film to Mendu, Switzerland through the underground organization.
At the headquarters of the Nazi party in Berlin, Willie denied any relationship with the Jews known as Desong in front of the Gestapo. The Gestapo brought Robert to her, but the two lovers were afraid to recognize each other when they met. Under the surveillance of the Nazis, the two were in tears and separated in pain. The Gestapo had no choice but to imprison Willie. Her song "Lily Marilyn" was banned. However, soldiers like to sing "Lily Marilyn", and Nazi officers have repeatedly banned it.
Mendelssohn got the film from Willie and reached an agreement with the Nazis to exchange it for Robert and other difficult friends on the border between Germany and Switzerland. Robert was saved. Willie was sent to the front-line hospital after trying to commit suicide, pale and very weak. In order to save Willie, the underground organization decided to create public opinion through broadcasting so that the Nazis could not be disintegrated. Robert learned that Willie risked his life to get the film to save him. He went to Radio Kalis according to the plan of the organization, rushed into the radio studio and played the rap "Lily Marilyn" to German soldiers. This woman was killed in a concentration camp and her song was banned. The leaders of the Nazi Empire were restless. In order to stabilize the morale of the army and prove that the radio was a rumor, they immediately organized reporters to interview Willie's bedside. Ask Willie to sing on stage again. Willie dismissed this and told Henkel, "The time when you wanted me to be afraid has long passed, and I am no longer afraid." Henkel had no choice but to move out of Robert. Willie was refreshed to hear that Robert was still alive, but she didn't believe Henkel. Henkel persuaded Robert. Willie heard a familiar and sweet voice on the phone in his hospital bed and couldn't help asking, "Robert, your voice, are you still alive?" At this moment, a smile appeared on Willie's sick face. Accompanied by the doctor, Willie staggered onto the stage again. Although the gymnasium and theater are as magnificent as ever, the stage decorated with flowers is dazzling, and the soldiers in the audience are in high spirits when they hear the voice of Lily Marilyn. At the same time, Willie's pianist was shot and fell in a pool of blood on the battlefield, and the Germans were losing ground. At the end of Willie's song, the Nazis announced their unconditional surrender.
At the end of the war, Wei Li rushed to a Swiss concert hall and went backstage. Through the glass hole, she saw Robert concentrating on conducting a large symphony orchestra. A happy smile appeared on Willie's tired face. After the performance, Robert went backstage to have a rest. When he saw Willie, he was about to say hello. Just then, his wife miriam came, hugged her husband tightly and advised him to take another curtain call. Just as Robert took the curtain call, Miriam told Wei Li that her name was Miriam Meendsen, and Wei Li turned around. When Robert went back backstage to look for Willie, Willie had sadly disappeared into the night with a small box.
Distinguish and appreciate
Lily Marilyn is the name of a song. It was written by Hans Lepa, a German composer born in Hamburg, in 19 15, but it didn't really come out until the summer of 194 19.
Because this song describes a soldier's love and parting feelings, the lyrics are sad and touching, and the melody is pleasant to listen to, coupled with the sincere and touching singing of the German female singer Lale Anderson at that time, it became a popular German song deeply loved by the masses during the Second World War.
Lala Anderson is also famous for singing "Lily Marlene" and has become a pop star. But at this time, Lala fell madly in love with the Jewish composer Rolf Liebermann. Due to Hitler's fascist rule, the two failed to get married. Lieberman became the manager of the opera house after he left Germany. The war made Lala lose everything and ruined her love. Only the song "Lily Marilyn" survived.
Fassbinder, a famous German director, cooperated with Manfred Putzel to adapt a romantic love story from chaos into a movie "Lily Marilyn" according to Lale Anderson's historical prototype, which was directed by fassbinder.
Reina Werner fassbinder is one of the representatives of "New German Film". He is a genius in despair and a ruthless analyst and critic of modern capitalism. His legendary personal life, profound German culture and unique artistic genius determine the essence and characteristics of his films.
His films are the products of Godard (one of the representative directors of the French New Wave) and silk (Danish-born German drama and film director, 1937 became an American immigrant), which has obvious characteristics of postmodernism and national reflection.
Fassbinder was keen on Brecht's alienation effect. He pursues art films and commercial films, deliberately draws lessons from Hollywood's methods and is fascinated by the charm and popularity of Hollywood films. Therefore, his films strive for Hollywood in external structure, but their internal thinking and criticism are otherworldly and non-Hollywood, which has become what people call Hollywood-style German films.
Fassbinder made 43 films in his life. The most successful movie in Hollywood, Germany is Maria Braun's marriage, but Lily Marilyn is also quite wonderful.
Melodrama is the core of Hollywood-style German films in fassbinder. Because Hollywood is good at melodrama, the plot is bizarre and tortuous, and the fate is bittersweet. "Lily Marilyn" revolves around the fate of the female singer Willie and describes the heroine Willie's loyalty to love. Because of the war, she paid all the costs to pursue her ideal love. In the end, her beloved was a great success in music and a happy marriage. Everything was just a bitter dream for her.
Another feature of Hollywood is that it pays attention to the beauty, appeal and magic of the scene. The scene of Lily Marlene is large, beautiful and luxurious, which can be compared with the arrangement of Hollywood blockbusters. Willie performed on the stage of Berlin Gymnasium for the first time to express her condolences to the German soldiers. At that time, fascism temporarily won the war. In the center of the stage is a radiant red sun, surrounded by the names of the cities occupied by Hitler: Rome, Belgrade, Paris and Prague. Wearing dazzling clothes, Willie stepped down from the sun and the whole audience applauded. In the gymnasium, fanaticism and brilliance blend together. Accompanied by noisy applause and the song "Lily Marilyn", groups of scenes of battlefield artillery and ammunition explosion, bloody casualties and painful cries for help were repeatedly interspersed. These scenes are intertwined with the applause and songs of the theater, showing the tragic fate of the singer who was once a hit. The arrangement of the cover structure, frequent spatial scheduling and smooth editing here are very similar to those in Hollywood movies, but there is a speculative force that captures people's hearts through this external plot chain. This is the inner meaning of this film-the reflection on history and the history of that bloody war. This spectacular scene in the film not only shows fassbinder's reference to Hollywood skills, but also permeates his own pursuit of philosophy.
In his films, fassbinder not only draws lessons from the appearance and skills of Hollywood drama films, but also attaches great importance to restoring his personality to the specific social relationship between people and adding it to artistic depiction. Fassbinder successfully shaped the character of such a female singer, just like a mirror reflecting the society and life distorted by the inhuman Nazi war. Willie fell victim to a political deal. The first deal was that Willie and Robert fell in love in Switzerland, but Robert's father Mendelssohn opposed it, because Mendelssohn led a Jewish action group and made fake passports to help Jews escape from Germany. He was worried that Willie, an Aryan, would affect their work, so he secretly bought bonds to blame Willie and split the couple alive on the political premise of safeguarding the interests of the group. The second time was in Germany. In order to survive, Willie had to turn to Nazi Henkel for help and enter a theater to sing a song, which was just an ordinary love song. Unexpectedly, she won the favor of the soldiers. Hitler took advantage of this by injecting the psychoanesthetic Lily Marilyn into the soldiers, so that they would willingly serve the fascists. To this end, Willie suddenly became Hitler's royal tool, became a smash hit and became a victim of the war.
In Lily Marlene, we can still see the traditional German film style adopted by fassbinder-indoor drama style. In addition to the Berlin Railway Station, the Swiss border and the battlefield where gunfire flashed, almost all other scenes in the film used interior scenes. This is the characteristic of German films in the 1920s. At that time, it was famous for its expressionism, symbolism and indoor drama style, which played an important role in the subsequent development of German films. Fassbinder's indoor drama is no longer a narrow space, but a multi-level and diversified modeling space. For example, in the film, Hitler gave Willie an all-white luxury villa, which was like a dream in the war. It's brand-new, shiny white, and Willie and her pianist are ecstatic, as if the war has ceased to exist. Reality is as hypocritical as a dream, full of temptation and deception. This modeling space is both real and exaggerated. It is both realism and expressionism.
In addition, fassbinder also used the technique of staggered space and multi-level depth environment in his films, which often appeared in houses with translucent glass partition windows in the air. For example, Robert's Swiss room was plastered with layers of glass, and Wei Li walked into the room. Through the glass, he saw Robert and a stranger in the next room. The ground was covered with sparkling jewels ... It strengthened the sense of space from the perspective of photography, and at the same time, it made the audience really feel the suffocation of people living in such a space, which showed that people could look at each other but could not communicate.
Fassbinder is good at focusing on the protagonist in photography, and its effect is to show that people are surrounded in a closed space with no way out. For example, all the members of the anti-fascist action group led by Robert's father opposed the scene in which Robert and Willie fell in love. The camera surrounded the members of the group, and all the members of the group looked at Robert angrily, forcing him to make a decision to abandon Willie. Photography like this is quite common in fassbinder's films.