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HILDE

By Kai WESSEL

BETA CINEMA - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2008

Broadway star, songstress, screen diva, international icon and bestselling author – Hildegard Knef was many things. But more than anything else, she was a fighter who often fell, but never stayed down.

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 137 mn
- Director(s)
- Kai WESSEL
- Writer(s)
- Maria VON HELAND
- Cast
- Heike MAKATSCH, Dan STEVENS, Monica BLEIBTREU, Hanns ZISCHLER, Michael GWISDEK
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-2E71-0000-C-0000-0000-1
- EIDR
- 10.5240/D6E9-BC93-F8D7-EEBB-CFEA-K
- Producer(s)
- Judy TOSSELL (Egoli Tossel Film AG)
- Synopsis
- Berlin, 1943. The collapse of Nazi Germany looms, but young HILDE marches through the rubble of Berlin with only one thought in her head: she wants to become a star. With luck, looks, the right men and overwhelming self-confidence, she makes her way in the film world, both during and after the war, swapping her Nazi lover for a young Jewish husband. Hollywood beckons, but Hilde is no Marlene. Underemployed and frustrated she longs for Germany. The divided country welcomes her back but a short nude scene in "The Sinner" (1950) provokes a national scandal, making her an outcast in her own country. Internationally, she becomes what she's always wanted to be: a star, on the big screen, on Broadway, in America and Europe. The years go by in a whirl of successes and failures, of ups and downs. Yet even as her film career wanes she picks herself up and embarks on a new journey…..