director:
Humphrey Jennings
playwright:
Humphrey Jennings
genre:
Documentary
/
War
region:
United States
language:
English
length: 30m
release date: 1944-01-02
IMDb: tt0139670
Overview
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.