The True Story of Lili Marlene

Name: The True Story of Lili Marlene
Genre: Documentary, Short, War
Released: 1945-04-01
Duration: 21 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim, Pat Hughes

1944
21m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

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Pat Hughes in The True Story of Lili Marlene (1944)

Documentary Short War

How Lili Marlene became the signature tune for the British army in North Africa.How Lili Marlene became the signature tune for the British army in North Africa.How Lili Marlene became the signature tune for the British army in North Africa.

Director
- Humphrey Jennings
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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

YOUR RATING

Director
- Humphrey Jennings
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Lucie Mannheim was married to Marius Goring from 1941 until her death in 1976.

Quotes
Marius Goring - On-Screen Narrator: When the fighting men come home, they bring with them trophies and souvenirs of the war, the Second World War. But There's one trophy that you will only find in the homes of the Eighth Army - the disc of a German song: Lili Marlene.

Crazy credits
In this reconstruction of the story of LILI MARLENE we have had the collaboration of a great number of people, particularly Eighth Army men, London dockworkers, radio experts and refugees from Fascism. Some have brought us information, others re-enacted scenes from the past, others again appear in the picture as themselves.

Soundtracks
Lilli Marleen
Music by Norbert Schultze
Words by Hans Leip

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5/10

What was the propaganda purpose ?

This was one of the last films made by Humphrey Jennings for the Crown Film Unit before his untimely death.It is a rather curious film.One has to bear in mind that all films made under the aegis of the Crown Film Unit during World War 2 had a propaganda message.However this is far from easy to discern from this film.The only conclusion that i have come to is that it is to try and to explain why a song popularised by the Afika Corps should also have been adopted by the Eigth Army.In doing this it provides a set of lyrics which do not bear much comparison to the original.Its running time is an odd 29minutes so i would guess that it would have been difficult to fit into a standard cinema programme where the size of most shorts was 2 reels.In USA it was cut down to 21 minutes.All told one of the least satisfying films from Humphrey Jennings.