She is a world-famous actress who created one of the perfect cinematic images of women and had a bright, unforgettable influence on fashion, cinema, style and female consciousness. A beautiful and charming woman, at the same time vicious and innocent, defiantly sexy and unapproachable. She witnessed all the main events of the 20th century: from two world wars to the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the birth of cinema to the advent of the Internet. Captivating and wild, flighty and faithful, eccentric and home-loving, an exemplary daughter and a mediocre mother, an anti-fascist and an emigrant, a violinist and a cook - this is how her admirers and detractors assessed the actress ambiguously. “Magnificent,” Ernest Hemingway called her. Her name was Marlene Dietrich. And this is a story told from the perspective of the heroine, which enhances the effect of the readers’ presence inside the illusory world created by this great woman. For the first time in Russian!