"From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by Malcolm Forbes as "the best crime novels around today." A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very clever, very dangerous Propaganda Minister-close confidant of Hitler, an ambitious schemer and flagrant libertine. And Bernie Gunther, former Berlin...

"This biography tells the story of Marlene Dietrich's life - the Berlin child, the young actress, the mother, lover and international star. The book describes personal details of Dietrich's life, from the logistics of her travels to passionate meetings with John Gilbert, Edith Piaf and Gary Cooper." --

Leni Riefenstahl and Marlene Dietrich both came of age in Weimar Berlin, a time of great political ferment. Both women seized upon the revolutionary energy of the 1920s, seeking careers on the stage and in film. In the 1930s, Riefenstahl became the official filmmaker of the Third Reich, a progenitor of fascist symbolism. Dietrich's slender and androgynous beauty made her a fashion icon. Both women had their grand passions, but neither abandoned ambition...

Herzog was transfixed by an early Kinski performance. From the chaos of sharing an apartment where Kinski completely destroyed a bathroom in a forty-eight hour rage, a volatile and creative partnership was born. Herzog documents the often violent ups and downs of their relationship, revisiting the various locations of their films and talking to the people they worked with.