Lilli Marlene (1950)

Plot Summary

Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.

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Lisa Daniely

Lilli Marlene

Hugh McDermott

Steve

Richard Murdoch

Flight Lieutenant Murdoch / Capt. Wimpole

Leslie Dwyer

Berry

Estelle Brody

Estelle

Cecil Brock

O'Riley

John Blythe

Holt

Stanley Baker

Evans

Ben Williams

Brownie

Russell Hunter

Scottie

Marcel Poncin

Lestoque

Judith Warden

Auntie

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