Veronika Voss (1982)

Highly Recommended

West Germany

Feature Film

Original Title: Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pea Fröhlich, Peter Märthesheimer

Cinematographer: Xaver Schwarzenberger

Composer: Peer Raben

Cast: Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Doris Schade, Erik Schumann, Peter Berling

Veronika Voss – a down-on-her-luck, drug addicted actress, who was a huge film star during the Nazi era, but now finds herself totally beholden to her morally dubious, morphine pushing doctor – stumbles into the life a sports journalist, who becomes obsessively intrigued by her and her perplexing lifestyle, in this beautifully photographed and adroitly acted film, the final part of Fassbinder’s BRD Trilogy. Iain.Stott