The True Story of Lili Marlene

The Eighth Army famously adopted a German song in the Western Desert. The Crown Film Unit traces the journey of Lili Marlene from its composition in post-WW1 Hamburg, via Radio Belgrade and the Afrika Korps, through victory in Tunisia and Sicily, to an imagined post-war East End, full of light, music and bananas for sale.

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Documentary,

War

Duration:

30 minutes

Year:

1944

Director:

Humphrey Jennings

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