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Marlene

Film poster
Directed byMaximilian Schell
Produced byZev Braun
Karel Dirka
Written byMaximilian Schell
Meir Dohnal
Music byNicolas Economou
CinematographyHenry Hauck
Pavel Hispler
Ivan Slapeta
Editing byHeidi Genée
Dagmar Hirtz
Distributed by Futura Film, Munich
Alive Films
Release date(s) 2 March 1984
7 November 1986
Running time94 min
CountryGermany
LanguageEnglish
German
French
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Marlene, also known in Germany as Marlene Dietrich - Porträt eines Mythos is a 1984 documentary film made by Maximilian Schell about the legendary film star Marlene Dietrich. It was made by Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and OKO-Film and released by Futura Film, Munich and Alive Films, (USA).

Background

Marlene Dietrich and Maximilian Schell had worked together on Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961. Dietrich had become a virtual recluse in her Paris apartment on the Avenue Montaigne. Schell tried to persuade her for years to participate in a documentary about her life. She continuously refused. In 1982, she eventually agreed to participate in the project on condition that she did not appear. The film therefore consists of an audio commentary and the visuals illustrate her career by showing film clips and stills from her films, as well as newsreel footage. She was contracted for "40 hours of talking" [1] as she reminds Schell during one of their exchanges. The film consists of voice interviews between Schell and Dietrich in which she often ignores his questions, makes acerbic comments about, among other things, some of the people she has worked with and some of the books written about her life and films. In the process, she touches on the subjects of life and death, reality and illusion and the nature of stardom. By her very reluctance to reveal much about herself, she gives one a much deeper understanding of her character than if she had participated in a more conventional format.

Film clips

The film contains clips from the following films:

Awards and nominations

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The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (1986). It won the Best Production Award at the Bavarian Film Awards, the Outstanding Non-Feature Film at the German Film Awards and the Best Documentary Award from the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA and the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards.

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Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell (left) in the film Judgment at Nuremberg

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"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
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Official language of: 53 countries
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ISO 639-1: en
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German language (Deutsch, ] (help info ) ) is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.
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French (français, pronounced [fʁɑ̃ˈsɛ]) is a Romance language originally spoken in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, and today by about 300 million people around the world as either
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Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and digital
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Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell (left) in the film Judgment at Nuremberg

Born November 8 1930 (1930--) (age 78)
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Marlene Dietrich

Dietrich at the Edinburgh International Festival,1964.
Birth name Marie Magdalene Dietrich
Born December 27, 1901
Berlin-Schöneberg, German Empire
Died May 6 1992 (aged 92)
Paris, France

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Bayerischer Rundfunk [Bavarian Broadcasting] (BR) is the public broadcasting authority for the German Freistaat (Free State) of Bavaria, with its main offices located in Munich. BR is a member of ARD.

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Judgment at Nuremberg (released in the UK as Judgement at Nuremberg) (1961) is a fictionalized film account of the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials, written by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley
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Screenplay:
Edwin Justus Mayer
Waldemar Young
Samuel Hoffenstein
Story:
Hans Székely
Robert A. Stemmle
Starring Marlene Dietrich
Gary Cooper
John Halliday
William Frawley
Music by Frederick Hollander
Cinematography Charles Lang
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 mystery/drama film released by RKO Pictures and directed by Orson Welles, his first feature film.
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