History Film / VeronikaVoss

TheDragon: Dr. Katz has her nurse Josefa do most of her dirty work.

* PsychoLesbian: the evil Dr. Katz is heavily implied to be involved in a lesbian relationship with both her female nurse and Veronika.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Dr. Katz jarringly alternates between looking like a frumpy lesbian and a stylish Notes/FemmeFatale.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Strongly hinted at with Dr. Katz, who is awfully touchy-feely with Veronika, is also oddly close with her nurse and co-conspirator, and is dressed like a butch lesbian.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: While it may be implied that the elderly couple Robert meets are Jewish due to the number tattoos on their arms, it is never outright stated if that was the reason they were imprisoned in the camps.

* SheCleansUpNicely: The only time Dr. Katz is seen looking feminine and glamorous is the last time she visits Veronika in her room[[spoiler: to convince her to commit suicide.]]

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Ursula Moritz, Dr. Katz's real life counterpart, ''was'' convicted for her involvement in the mysterious death of Sybille Schmitz, there is absolutely no historical evidence she ran a full blown crime syndicate that preyed on multiple patients.

It's set in Munich in 1955. Robert Krohn, a sports reporter with a Munich newspaper, meets a woman in the rain outside a movie theater. Her name is Veronika Voss, and the film they just watched was one of her old movies. Voss was a big star in German cinema during the UsefulNotes/NaziGermany era, but after the war she struggled to find work. It gets worse than that: Veronika is addicted to morphine, and is in the clutches of her DrFeelgood, evil neurologist Dr. Marianne Katz. MKatz has a scam in which she gets rich people hooked on morphine and then bleeds them of their assets. Veronika, in fact, has signed over her mansion and everything else she owns to Dr. Katz.

It's set in Munich in 1955. Robert Krohn, a sports reporter with a Munich newspaper, meets a woman in the rain outside a movie theater. Her name is Veronika Voss, and the film they just watched was one of her old movies. Voss was a big star in German cinema during the UsefulNotes/NaziGermany era, but after the war she struggled to find work. It gets worse than that: Veronika is addicted to morphine, and is in the clutches of her DrFeelgood, evil neurologist Dr. Marianne Katz. Katz has a scam in which she gets rich people hooked on morphine and then bleeds them of their assets. Veronika, in fact, has signed over her mansion and everything else she owns to Dr. Katz.

Fassbender's next-to-last film and the last film in his "BRD Trilogy" of movies about life in West Germany in the years after the war, following ''Film/TheMarriageOfMariaBraun'' and ''Lola''.

* PsychoLesbian: Dr. Katz is heavily implied to be involved in a lesbian relationship with Veronika.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Veronika longs to be recognized by her fans, but the one time it happens at a jewelry shop, she ends up with a [[FreakOut massive anxiety attack]] and flees in terror.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Veronika longs to be recognized by her fans, but the one time it happens at a jewelry shop, she ends up with a [[FreakOut massive anxiety attack]].

* AdaptationDyeJob: Assuming the film is a RomanAClef for the life of Sybille Schmitz, Schmitz was famous for [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029095/mediaviewer/rm2775649024 her dark hair]], but Fassbinder portrays her fictional counterpart as a blonde.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Assumming the film is a RomanAClef for the life of Sybille Schmitz, Schmitz was famous for [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029095/mediaviewer/rm2775649024 her dark hair]], but Fassbinder portrays her fictional counterpart as a blonde.