Rosel Zech plays a dissipated 1940s German movie star who, 10 years after the war, has become a morphine addict. Her claim to fame: She used to be a close, personal friend of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. The third in a trilogy of films from director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, frequently grouped with The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lola due to the shared theme of women's experiences with loss and survival in postwar Germany.