Devil's Mistress (2016)

Original title

Lída Baarová

Directed by

Filip Renč

Genre

drama film, biographical film, historical film

Country

Slovakia, Czech Republic

Runtime

1h 46m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 67 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Slovak actress becomes the mistress of a top Nazi official in 1930s Germany. The film follows her rise in the film industry and her entanglement with the political elite.

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What happens

The Devil's Mistress (Czech: Lída Baarová) is a 2016 Czech–Slovak historical biography film directed by Filip Renč and produced by Jiří Jurtin. The film stars the Slovak actress Tatiana Pauhofová who plays Lída Baarová, the mistress of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Lída Baarová was a star actress in Czechoslovakia, later moving to Germany to appear in the film Barcarole. There, she would be roped into the life of Joseph Goebbels and into the political lives of the Nazi Party elite. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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