The Marriage of Maria Braun film "Lili Marleen" with Hanna Schygulla in the main role. Horst Wendlandt would produce the two other films in the BRD Trilogy, "Lola" and "Veronika Voss". His success also allowed him to realize his last project, "Querelle" which was co-financed by Gaumont. As Fengler had oversold the rights to the film, the profit share of Fassbinder was an open question. Eckelkamp saw himself as the sole owner of all rights, but sent a check in the amount of 70,000 DM to Fassbinder in 1982 to appease the director. After Fassbinder's death his mother and heiress Liselotte Eder revived the claims,
Mel Ferrer "Lost Boundaries" (1949), playing a black person who passes for white. The film was controversial but much acclaimed. Ferrer had a support role in "Born to Be Bad" (1950) at RKO, directed by Nicholas Ray. At that studio he directed Claudette Colbert in "The Secret Fury" (1950) and did some directing on "Vendetta" (1950), "The Racket" (1951) and "Macao" (1952). Ferrer then starred as a bullfighter in "The Brave Bulls" (1951) for Robert Rossen at Columbia. Ferrer fought with Arthur Kennedy over Marlene Dietrich in "Rancho Notorious" (1952) directed by Fritz Lang at RKO. Ferrer went over to MGM replacing