Hilde
- Year:
- 2009
- 137 min
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and treat my destiny with loving care.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are starting
our descend on Berlin.
Please refrain from smoking
and fasten your seatbelts.
There they are. Hello, Hilde.
Nice to have you back.
Can we ask some questions?
- One at a time.
I'm doing fine. I'm always happy
to feel the ground under my feet.
Miss Knef, how do you explain...
...all the ups and downs in your life?
Success and failure are both overrated.
But failure makes for better headlines.
Tonight you'll make history
as the first...
...popular singer in the Philharmonie.
Why Knef, of all people?
If it's sold out, I don't ask.
How would you answer?
That's why l've ended up in places...
...where the crowd never was. Fortunately.
Or unfortunately.
- Miss Knef,
what is your next film project
- Young man,
I won't make another film.
You left Berlin when the Wall was built.
How do you feel about it today?
I just climb over walls, that's all.
Can l have your autograph?
- With pleasure.
What's your name?
Monika. Very good.
Is that alright?
- Thank you.
Nice to have you back.
I can't shake off this damn feeling
that they'll hate me tonight.
Too high, too sharp.
Roll sound.
- Rolling.
Screen test:
Hildegard Knef.- Ready!
I'm sorry, l forgot my lines.
No, l was just kidding.
My name is Hildegard Knef, and...
I'd like to study acting
at the Babelsberg film school.
My peace is gone,
my heart is sore,
I'll find it, ah, never,
no, nevermore!
His noble form,
his bearing so high,
and his lips so smiling,
and the power of his eye.
My bosom yearns
toward him to go.
and hold him so.
And kiss his lips
as fain would I
upon his kisses
to swoon and die!
Why do you want to be an actress?
Because I have talent.
How do you know?
- I just do.
Turn your head to the side.
I want to see your profile.
Where were you?
- Hello, Mother.
Frieda, get inside.
Where is Grandfather?
- Waiting till the last minute,
to sit near the door.
Hilde, come on!
Grandfather!
Hildegard!
I got accepted!
Hurry.
The boy's going downhill.
Thank God we're being evacuated.
I'm not coming, Mother.
- What?
I'm staying in Berlin.
- Quiet over there!
The girl's talking nonsense!
She certainly can't sing.
She has a boy's voice, it's unmelodic!
She has a boy's body.
She's not pretty or elegant, nothing!
Please take a seat.
You see, Ms Bongers,
we're going to be evacuated.
I can't stay, my son has a weak heart.
I have to take my daughter with me.
She mustn't steer a wrong course.
She has no talent for acting.
With respect, we decide that.
Or are you implying that
Minister Goebbels is no judge?
No.
No, l didn't mean...
Read it out, Hilde.
"Hildegard Knef perfectly represents
the archetypal German girl.
She has an appealing charm,
a pretty smile, and a clear gaze.
On top of that, she is well-built
and moves graciously.
She is nice, but her nose needs
to be fixed.
Minister Goebbels."
Her nose has already been fixed once.
She broke her nose as a child.
But you think that a second operation
would help?
I didn't break my nose, you broke it.
At 16 l used to softly say
I want to be great, be a winner,
to be happy, to never lie.
At 16 l used to softly say
I want it all, or nothing.
A lady should not grovel.
Ewald von Demandowsky.
I saw your screen test, Miss Knef.
I think you have great talent.
Thank you.
Please, just one dress!
Just for a night.
- No.
I don't have time to go home.
Ewald von Demandowsky has asked me
to see the new Hans Albers film.
Hildegard?
- Bongi.
I'll bring it back tomorrow. I promise.
I want you to stay here this evening.
- What?
But I've been invited...
By the Reich Film Supervisor, I know.
And that's precisely
why I'd like you to stay here.
For screen tests.
- What screen tests?
You will be discovered many times yet.
It's too soon for you.
What a delightful surprise.
Ms Bongers told me
you weren't coming.
The screen tests have been postponed.
I'm still rehearsing.
Your beauty is overwhelming,
especially in this very special dress.
Come along, this way.
Shall we go?
Yes.
You dance well!
- It depends on who's leading.
Blimey!
When l hold you in my arm,
you're just the right size.
Do you have to?
- Yes, of course.
Come back to sea!
Thanks, Duwe, that's enough.
We've seen enough.
There is no value
if all they depict is wretched lives,
immorality,
promiscuity and hopelessness.
The film I approved was supposed...
...to honour the merchant navy.
This will be the film's last showing.
There's not enough room in the car.
Miss Knef,
the others are waiting in the car.
Thanks, Duwe. The car can leave.
My family has been evacuated
to Austria.
There's something here...
...our armies push forward,
so that we shall beat back the enemy!
And I believe
that one day, the victory...
I'll be off.
... never have l believed
so strongly in anything.
Have you heard?
The telephone is called "selb" now.
The Fuhrer has announced
that foreign words must be eradicated.
Erased, just like the enemy cities.
We know no pardon...
"Pardon" is French, isn't it?
Every division
that is making small offensives...
Oh, how nice! You're at home!
We were filming all night.
Mostly waiting, between the power cuts
and the air raids.
Why aren't you at Tobis Studios?
Tobis has been bombed.
The entire building was destroyed.
I just met with Goebbels.
The film has been cancelled.
My film?
I'm sorry.
- But why didn't anyone tell me?
I'm telling you now!
Heil Hitler!
I have to speak to Mr Demandowsky.
One moment, please.
Mr Demandowsky!
Leave! The Russians will rape you!
They'll beat you to death!
Go, before it's too late.
Heil Hitler!
- What do you want?
You know the task ahead of you.
And I know that you
will carry it out as expected.
The hour of your glory is here.
I've been called up.
The Fuhrer is calling up reserves.
I have to report
to Schmargendorf HQ today.
I'm coming with you.
That's out of the question.
Then shoot me.
I won't wait to be beaten or raped.
It's impossible. Please!
It's impossible.
Age?
Nineteen.
- A girl.
I don't believe it!
- She's my fiancee.
What if the Russians get hold of her?
Look around you, soldier.
Look at your troops
and tell me l can't fight!
Can you shoot?
Those cans outside.
Wait.
Here, the safety catch.
Fire.
Stop.
Leave your helmet on,
head down, mouth shut.
Heil Hitler!
Move it!
Close ranks.
It's your watch.
They're coming.
Heads down!
Stay calm.
Take cover!
Pull back! Move it!
Move it! Run!
We have to move.
Marry me.
Be my wife before we die.
We have to move! We have to!
Everyone stop.
First group, take a leak.
The others, sit down.
And no talking!
I made it out of Stalingrad
just so some Pole
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