It's unlikely Fassbinder ever saw this equally fanciful narrative constructed around the popular song and it's enormous popularity on both sides of WWII. But it's the one that comes closest to his glossy retread of the original combining regular performances of the song with Nazis (including Walter Gotell as Goebbels, who wants to claim her for the Fatherland).
The title of this film got my attention. Who wouldn't want to see a movie entitled "Lilli Marlene?
The film was dated by 1951. It is great as a propaganda film for the war but for the post war period it is out of date.
I had been looking for this somewhat obscure little movie because it is an early film of Stanley Baker.The picture is set in North Africa before El Alamein when the British and German armies moved backwards and forwards across the same territory on several occasions.
