Look me over closely
Documentary Film
DE 20 Min, 2019
Funded by nordmedia - Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/ Bremen mbH, Friedrich Weinhagen Stiftung, Sparkasse Campus Stipendium, StuPa Uni Hildesheim, Studentenwerk OstNiedersachsen, TU Asta, Crowdfunding.
Directors Svenja Simone Schulte & Juliane Rettschlag
Production Svenja Simone Schulte Cinematography Julia Weingarten
Editing Sophie Messerschmidt
DE 20 Min, 2019
Funded by nordmedia - Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/ Bremen mbH, Friedrich Weinhagen Stiftung, Sparkasse Campus Stipendium, StuPa Uni Hildesheim, Studentenwerk OstNiedersachsen, TU Asta, Crowdfunding.
Directors Svenja Simone Schulte & Juliane Rettschlag
Production Svenja Simone Schulte Cinematography Julia Weingarten
Editing Sophie Messerschmidt
Since 1991 the double performer Sabine Schwarzlose has been appearing as Marlene Dietrich on Berlin‘s cabaret stages.With passion and self-irony, Schwarzlose reflects the longings connected to the myth of Marlene Dietrich: queer icon, femme fatale, a mystery in tailcoat and top hat. Unsurpassed, the actress and singer Marlene Dietrich understood how to stage herself as a mysteriously cool but irresistible iconic figure, whose influence reached far beyond film. As a designer of herself, she deliberately used various tricks and techniques: playing with gender identities and sexualities, praising surfaces, light and glamour. However, wind machines, complex lighting systems, film tricks and technologies have also helped to create the star. And made the audience dream. But what dream is dreamt here? What does it mean to become an authentic Marlene Dietrich? Is it about the looks, the posture, the smoky voice? Is there any more of the spirit of rebellion in it? With the help of the expert Schwarzlose, the film examines the production of the icon and returns to the place where it all began: to the former Kino-Traumfabrik, the Marlene Dietrich Halle in Babelsberg.
