Lilli Marlene

It's unlikely Fassbinder ever saw this equally fanciful narrative constructed around the popular song and it's enormous popularity on both sides of WWII. But it's the one that comes closest to his glossy retread of the original combining regular performances of the song with Nazis (including Walter Gotell as Goebbels, who wants to claim her for the Fatherland).

'Stinker' Murdoch plays himself, as does silent star Estelle Brody, briefly heard at one point singing WWI favourite 'Mademoiselle from Armentieres').