Dance with Death: The Ufa Star Sybille Schmitz

Dance with Death: The Ufa Star Sybille Schmitz

55 mins | Documentary | Dec. 31, 2000

A documentary of the life of German actress Sybille Schmitz (1909–1955) who rose to prominence in the German cinema of the 1930s and whose final years were used as the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1982 film 'Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss'.

Dance with Death: The Ufa Star Sybille Schmitz

55 mins | Documentary | Dec. 31, 2000

Dance with Death: The Ufa Star Sybille Schmitz
A documentary of the life of German actress Sybille Schmitz (1909–1955) who rose to prominence in the German cinema of the 1930s and whose final years were used as the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1982 film 'Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss'.
Producers Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Transit Film GmbH
Original title Tanz mit dem Tod: Der Ufa-Star Sybille Schmitz
Directors Achim Podak
Writers Achim Podak, Friedemann Beyer

Cast

Sybille Schmitz

as Self (archive footage)

Willy Egger

as Self

Gyula Trebitsch

as Self