Lili Marleen is a 1981 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder that stars Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, and Mel Ferrer.

Though the screenplay uses the autobiographical novel Der Himmel hat viele Farben (The Heavens Have Many Colors) by Lale Andersen, her last husband, Arthur Beul, said the film bears little relation to her real life.

In Switzerland, an aspiring German singer called Willie is in love with Robert, a trainee conductor who is Jewish.

Fearing that the network could be endangered by Robert's involvement with a German woman, his wealthy father has her deported.

At the end of the war, Willie is able to get into Switzerland, where she is delighted to attend Robert's first concert, but there is no hope of renewing their romance.