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Devil's Mistress (2016)

Devil's Mistress poster
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
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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)

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