The True Story of Lili Marlene

Name: The True Story of Lili Marlene
Genre: Documentary, War
Released: 1944-01-02T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 6

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.