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"Veronika Voss"
1982
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Inspired by the life story of the popular actress Sybille Schmitz, "the
German Greta Garbo," who made movies between 1929 and 1953, was mostly
wasted in potboilers, became depressed, turned to drugs, and killed herself
in 1955 at the age of 46. An ominous and lurid melodrama, Veronika Voss
is constructed as a complex compendium of film styles and filmic references,
not spelled out in anthological form, but integrated with the dramatic
content. A hauntingly original work. German with English subtitles. 105
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