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| | La niña de tus ojos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Blonde, leggy, and full of life, she was the closest thing Germany had to a Marlene Dietrich or a Marilyn Monroe; the poster for The Marriage of Maria Braun, with Schygulla in hat, camisole, nylons, and high heels, was worldwide pin-up material. |
 | | The odd thing is that they're essentially the same movie, the first set in the post-war years (it ends in 1954, at the moment when the German national soccer team wins its first World Cup), the second during WW2. |
 | | In Lili Marleen, Aryan Swiss chanteuse Willie falls for Jewish Underground member Robert (Giancarlo Giannini), but his distrusting father (Mel Ferrer) gets her thrown out of Switzerland, whereupon she records "Lili Marleen" and becomes the toast of Nazi Germany, all the while still loving Robert. |
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