One of the most mesmerizing and sad love stories of the 20th-century “world.”
The story of the novel by the most famous singer of the “lost generation,” Erich Maria Remarque—and of the most famous “femme fatale” of cinema, Marlene Dietrich, told by them themselves—in the letters they wrote to each other.
Their relationship was not simple.
In it, flashes of passion and tenderness too often were replaced by misunderstanding, jealousy, distrust, and even enmity.
Their relationship was both necessary and torturous—for both Dietrich and Remarque.
It was meant to end badly—and it did.
But even now, the letters of the great writer and the brilliant actress touch the soul, filling it with aching tenderness…