Lili Marlene, the original musical love story of Rosie Penn, the famous cabaret singer, and Count Hans Wilhelm van Kleister Graff, is set in the last year of the Weimar German Republic and into the 3rd Reich period.
As the dark clouds of Fascist takeover become clearer, the Count, as the head of the passport bureau of the State Department, works to get the VIP German cultural and scientific elite out of German.
The Count realizes that he must leave and get his surviving family out before the shadowy inhumanity of anti-Semitism descends upon them
