Marlene The Life of Legendary Actress Marlene Dietrich
An Oscar nominee for Best Documentary, MARLENE brilliantly lifts the veil on a movie star of the brightest magnitude as she is fading into twilight.
In September of 1982, Oscar winning actor and director Maximilian Schell arrived in Paris for a series of on-camera interviews with Marlene Dietrich intended for a documentary film on the screen icon's life and work. Despite having agreed to participate, the near-recluse Dietrich withdrew permission for her Judgment at Nuremburg co-star to film in her flat. Instead, in over 40 hours of audio-taped interviews, the 81 year-old screen legend provoked a battle royale of conversational mind games leading to unforgettably raw and truthful emotional revelations.
"A portrait of a remarkably strong-willed woman, stage-managing her career right up to the bitter end" - The New York Times
Running Time
92 mins
Year
1984
Kanopy ID
1114315
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