Eine Amour fou: Marlene Dietrich und Erich Maria Remarque

September 1937: The Venice Film Festival has just come to an end. On the terrace of the Hotel Excelsior on the Lido, Hollywood diva Marlene Dietrich is sitting with Josef von Sternberg, who made her a world star as the director of The Blue Angel. Then a completely different exceptional artist comes to the table, introduces himself and begins a charming small talk: the German writer Erich Maria Remarque, who achieved world fame with his anti-war novel Im Westen nichts Neues 
At this moment, an amour fou begins that lasts only a few years and takes both of them to their emotional limits on an almost daily basis. A love story full of pleasures and ecstasies, full of disappointments and new beginnings against the backdrop of the looming human catastrophe of the Second World War. Like tens of thousands of others, both are on the run from the Nazi terror system in their home country, both are experiencing painful creative and career crises. Both commute between Paris, Cap d'Antibes, Ancona, St. Moritz and New York, Beverly Hills, between the old and the new world - driven by fears of the future and self-doubt, but also in constant search of fame and recognition for their work.
Based on diaries, correspondence and memories of many companions and contemporaries, Thomas Hüetlin tells the story of a century of love between two shining lights of German culture in the face of the looming horror in the style of a captivating reportage.

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