Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Munich, 1955. Veronika Voss, a former star of German cinema has fallen into drug and alcohol abuse to forget her past success. She meets Robert Krohn, a sports writer, who shows her a great deal of compassion. Very soon he discovers that the former actress is under the influence of her neurologist, Dr Marianne Katz...
With : Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess
Screenplay : Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pea Fröhlich, Peter Märthesheimer
Editing : Juliane Lorenz
Music : Peer Raben
Image : Xaver Schwarzenberger
Screenplay : Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pea Fröhlich, Peter Märthesheimer
Editing : Juliane Lorenz
Music : Peer Raben
Image : Xaver Schwarzenberger
Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Veronika Voss) (1982) is the last episode released in the BRD trilogy made up of Die Ehe der Maria Braun (The Mariage of Maria Braun) (1978) and Lola (1981). It was the last film Rainer Werner Fassbinder released in his lifetime as he died just a few months after it came out. The trilogy gives the portraits of three women in post-War Germany, and sheds light on the trauma left by the Second World War. Although Fassbinder was always obsessed by the relationship between the dominant and the dominated, this fascination reaches it heights in Veronika Voss. Shot in a dreamlike and aesthetic black and white, the film is inspired by the film noir, at the crossroads between German expressionism and Hollywood. Fassbinder thus became the spearhead of what is today known as New German Cinema.