Film

Lilli Marlene

1950 · 1h 14m · Drama

IMDb

4.9

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.

Lisa Daniely

Lilli Marlene

Hugh McDermott

Steve

Richard Murdoch

Flight Lieutenant Murdoch / Capt. Wimpole

Leslie Dwyer

Berry

Estelle Brody

Estelle

Cecil Brock

O'Riley

John Blythe

Holt

Stanley Baker

Evans

Ben Williams

Brownie

Russell Hunter

Scottie

Marcel Poncin

Lestoque

Judith Warden

Auntie

Lawrence O'Madden

Col. Wharton

Stuart Lindsell

Major Phillips

Olaf Olsen

Nazi Officer

Irene Prador

Nurse Schmidt

• Arthur CrabtreeDirector
• Leslie WoodWriter
• William J. GellExecutive Producer
• Jack AsherDirector of Photography
• Stanley BlackOriginal Music Composer
• Lister LauranceEditor

Release date

December 8, 1950

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 14m

Genres

Drama