MARLENE DIETRICH
GETTING HER OWN TV SERIES
Out dear Beta Film is uniting with producer Nico Hofmann on a six part series on famous movie icon Marlene Dietrich inspired by Thomas Hüetlin’s upcoming novel ‘Man Lebt Sein Leben Nur Einmal’ (You Only Live Once)!
The novel starts in 1937. The Venice Film Festival has just ended. Hollywood diva Marlene Dietrich is sitting on the terrace of the Hotel Excelsior with Josef von Sternberg, who made her a global star as the director of “The Blue Angel”. Then a completely different, exceptional artist comes to the table, introduces himself and begins a charming small talk: German writer Erich Maria Remarque, who achieved world fame with his anti-war novel “Nothing New in the West.” At this moment one of the wildest love affairs of the 20th century begins, that lasts only a few years and pushes both of them to their emotional limits. A love story full of pleasures and ecstasies, full of disappointments and new beginnings against the background of the looming human catastrophe of the Second World War. Like tens of thousands of other people, both are on the run from the Nazi terror system in their home country, both are in painful creative and career crises.
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| The series is inspired by Huetlin's book |
