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Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss = Veronika Voss /

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: CC1597D | Criterion Collection | discCC1594D | Criterion Collection | setLanguage: German Subtitle language: English Series: BRD trilogy ; 2. | Criterion collection ; 205. | Criterion collection ; 203, disc 2.Publication details: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, 2003.Description: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

1559409452
9781559409452
1559409428
9781559409421

Other title:

Veronika Voss
Title on disc surface and container: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Veronika Voss

Uniform titles:

Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Motion picture)

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.43/72 22

LOC classification:

PN1997 .S356 2003 DVD

Contents:

Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982( (104 min.) -- Tanz mit dem Tod: der Ufa-Star Sybille Schmitz / ein Film von Achim Podak ; Co-Autor, Friedemann Beyer ; Produzent, Loy W. Arnold ; eine Produktion der Transit Film GmbH ; in Zusammenarbeit mit der Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung (2000) (55 min.)

Production credits:

Music, Peer Raben ; director of photography, Xaver Schwarzenberger ; art direction, Rolf Zehetbauer ; editor, Juliane Lorenz ; costume designer, Barbara Baum.

Cast: Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer, Doris Schade, Erik Schumann, Peter Berling, Günter Kaufmann, Sonja Neudorfer, Lilo Pempeit, Volker Spengler, Herbert Steinmetz, Elisabeth Volkmann, Hans Wyprächtiger, Peter Zadek, Johanna Hofer, Rudolf Platte, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Thomas Schühly (uncredited).Summary: München, 1955: Die Film-Diva Veronika Voss, ein grosser Star der UFA-Zeit, einst angebliche Geliebte von Goebbels, hat ihre besten Zeiten hinter sich. In der BRD der Nachkriegszeit beginnt ihr Stern zu sinken, die Rollen bleiben aus. Einsam und drogenabhängig lebt sie im Sanatorium der Ärztin Dr. Katz. Doch die vermeintliche Wohltäterin ist ein Todesengel: Dr. Katz hält ihre Patientin gezielt morphiumabhängig, um sie sich gefügig zu machen und an das Vermögen der Diva zu kommen. Als Sportjournalist Robert Krohn Veronika kennen und lieben lernt, beschliesst er, sie aus den Fängen Dr. Katz' und ihrer Helferinnen zu berfreien. Doch will sich Veronika retten lassen?Summary: Once the toast of Germany, Veronika Voss had allegedly been an intimate of Joseph Gobbels. Playing to an increasingly diminishing fan following, Veronika turns to drugs to cushion her against the cruelties of life. Her self-destruction is accelerated by her Dr. Katz, who plys Veronika with morphine in order to gain control of the actress's money and property. A well-meaning sportswriter tries to save Veronika from herself, sacrificing his own personal happiness - and the life of his girlfriend Cornelia Froeboess - in the process. Allegedly an amalgam of several true stories, Veronika Voss is the second of Fassbinder's "postwar trilogy" (the others are The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lola).Summary: Tanz mit dem Tod: der Ufa-Star Sybille Schmitz: "This portrait of actress Sybille Schmitz was drawn from interviews with relatives and colleagues, and clips from her most important films. Dance with death [Sybille Schmitz, UFA star] reveals her enigmatic life, particularly her fate after World War II and the circumstances of her suicide in 1955, which informed R.W. Fassbinder's film about a fading film star, Veronika Voss." -- Criterion Collection

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 1244 "v. 2" (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050158452

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982.

Special features: New high-definition digital transfer with restored image and sound; audio commentary by film critic and author Tony Rayns, editor of Fassbinder; new video conversation with star Rosel Zech and editor Juliane Lorenz; Dance with Death (Tanz mit dem Tod), a one-hour portrait of UFA Studios star Sybille Schmitz, Fassbinder's inspiration for the character Veronika Voss.

"Under exclusive license from Wellspring Media."--Container.

Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, region 1, 16:9 widescreen presentation; Dolby digital mono.

In German with optional English subtitles.

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