Fresh
Fassbinder's visual style is the perfect match for this subject.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Veronika Voss
Stars don't die, they fade away.
1982 · 1h 45m · R
Drama
Directed by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Veronika Voss
Overview
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.
Director and cast
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director
- Rosel Zech as Veronika Voss
- Hilmar Thate as Robert Krohn
- Cornelia Froboess as Henriette
- Annemarie Düringer as Dr. Marianne Katz
- Doris Schade as Josefa
- Erik Schumann as Dr. Edel
- Elisabeth Volkmann as Grete
- Armin Mueller-Stahl as Max Rehbein
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Kinogänger
- Peter Berling Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
76%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A chilly, tough, wicked satire disguised as the sort of schmaltzy, black-and-white, 1950's melodrama.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
The situation soon freezes into an inert, rather facile metaphor for America's postwar domination of the German soul.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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