Set in 1955. I read that it was based loosely on the case of a German actress named Sybille Schmitz.
About a washed up Nazi-era German movie star. She meets and starts sleeping with a newspaper sports reporter who wants to write an article on actors in her shoes. He discovers that she's being "treated" by a doctor who keeps her hooked on morphine so she can exploit her wealth. These things happen in a country full of "former" Nazis.
I looked up Sybille Schmitz on Wikipedia and surprised at how closely the movie followed her story. They kept saying it was "loosely" based on her but it wasn't as "loose" as I assumed.
In black & white. With a surprising amount of American country music.
I've been looking at IMDb as I watch movies and have noticed how fleeting movie careers can be. Actors should prepare emotionally for having their careers grind to a halt.
I looked Sybille Schmitz up on IMDb and was surprised that I've seen three of her movies, G.W. Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), a silent movie starring Louise Brooks, Carl Dreyer's Vampyr (1932) and the Nazi version of Titanic (1943).
Veronika Voss and Vampyr and maybe some others are available on The Criterion Channel.
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