Lulu in Berlin

Jul 23 2006 N/A 0h 50m
Documentary

Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks. It took place in her apartment in Rochester, New York, in 1971.

Plot

Louise Brooks discloses details of "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of a Lost Girl" and about her colleague Carl Goetz; her relationship with the expressionist director Georg Wilhelm Pabst, comparing his working method with Ernst Lubitsch; her meeting with Rene Clair; why Marlene Dietrich has not been selected to perform Lulu; insights about Greta Garbo and Leni Riefenstahl; and her relationship with her lover George Preston Marshall.

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Directed by

Richard Leacock, Susan Steinberg

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Brooks Project, Inc.

Languages

English

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121
Average Rating
7.2 out of 10
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