Lili Marleen (film) Lili Marleen (film) Lili Marleen is a 1981 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Hanna Schygulla. The screenplay was produced using the autobiographical novel "Der Himmel hat viele Farben" ("The Heavens Have Many Colors") by Lale Andersen. However, according to Lale Andersen's last husband, Arthur Beul, the film's plot bore little relation to her real life. The film is set during the Third Reich and is about the forbidden love between the German singer Willie (Hanna Schygulla) and the Swiss Jewish composer Robert Mendelssohn (a character based on Rolf Liebermann), who actively seeks to help
Mel Ferrer flop. He made two films for 20th Century Fox: their all star adaptation of "The Sun Also Rises" (1957) and "Fräulein" (1958) a war story with Dana Wynter. At MGM he was one of the last three people on Earth in "The World, the Flesh and the Devil" (1959), another flop. Ferrer went to Italy to be star in Roger Vadim's vampire movie "Blood and Roses" (1960). After an English horror film "The Hands of Orlac" (1960) he did an Italian adventure film "Charge of the Black Lancers" (1962). Ferrer was one of several stars in "The Devil and the