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 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