It's Raining Roses
A musical portrait of  
Hildegard Knef

Written and directed by
James Edward Lyons

 Music/Arrangements 
 William Ward Murta
 Starring
 Roswitha Benda
 Melanie Haupt

 Published by 
 Funkturm Verlag, Berlin

The year is 1975. 
On the surface Hildegard Knef has reached the peak of her career.
Her book 'The Gift Horse' has sold over a million copies and been translated into 17 languages; concert tours with big-band accompaniment are sold out wherever she appears. What the public doesn't know is, that at the age of 50 Knef has been diagnosed with breast cancer, been battling a drug addiction, and been abandoned by her husband, David Cameron. Fleeing their house in Austria, she takes up residence in a Berlin hotel. Alone at a typewriter in the middle of the night she confonts her past, and - literally - herself. 'Knef' meets 'Hilde' - two women, one person.  It is the start of an emotional roller-coaster ride through the night. 
"Was anyone happy that you were even born?" Knef and Hilde hold up an unrelenting mirror up to each other. Autobiographical texts, poems, and over 30 Knef-Chansons bring her dramatic story back to life: flight and imprisonment during the last days of the war, the lost years in Hollywood; the 'national scandal' of a naked scene in the film 'Die Sünderin'; the over 600 performances of 'Silk Stockings' on Broadway which it's ensuing physcial toll leading eventually to the brink of emotional and physical desaster. Only her unrelenting will to live saves her again and again.