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The True Story of Lili Marlene (1944)
Directed by Humphrey Jennings
Documentary, War · 30m
The Eighth Army famously adopted a German song in the Western Desert. The Crown Film Unit traces the journey of Lili Marlene from its composition in post-WW1 Hamburg, via Radio Belgrade and the Afrika Korps, through victory in Tunisia and Sicily, to an imagined post-war East End, full of light, music and bananas for sale.
Crew
- Director
- Humphrey Jennings
- Writer
- Humphrey Jennings
- Editor
- Sidney Stone
- Producer
- J.B. Holmes
Details
- Release date
- 1944-01-02
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Documentary, War
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English