Die Akte Zarah Leander
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Zarah Leander was one of the greatest film stars of the Third Reich. Adored by the Nazis, she rose to become the highest-paid female film star of National Socialism. To this day, she remains inextricably linked to our collective memory, reviled as a "Nazi siren" but also loved unconditionally. At the same time, there are files in Sweden that claim she was a Russian spy. Extremely contradictory rumors that continue to shape the myth of Zarah Leander to this day. She herself described herself as completely apolitical. "The Zarah Leander File" delves into the life of the Swedish film diva and asks: Who was the woman behind the mysterious gaze, the frivolous songs, and the pompous gestures? Who was "Leander" really?
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Directors: Simone Dobmeier, Torsten StriegnitzProducer: Christian Beetz
Zarah Leander
as Self (archive footage)
Jutta Jacobi
as Self - Biographer
Brigitte Pettersson
as Self - Sectretary of Zarah Leander
Richard Rosengren
as Self - Play and screenplay writer
Tiina Rosenberg
as Self - Rector of the University of Arts, Helsinki
Martin Lücke
as Self - Musicologist
Paul Seiler
as Self - Zarah Leander expert
Georg Seeßlen
as Self - Film theorist and historian
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