Lilli Marlene

Jul 23 1951 N/A 1h 14m
Drama, War

Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.

Plot

A French singer is captured by the Nazis, and made to broadcast for them.

Written by

Leslie Wood

Directed by

Arthur Crabtree

Cast

Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, Richard Murdoch

Crew

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Production Countries

United Kingdom

Production Companies

Monarch Productions Limited, William Gell Productions

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
158
Average Rating
5 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA