![]() ![]() ![]() In April 1945, she was first arrested by American soldiers. Riefenstahl was the most famous and successful cultural figure of the Third Reich and a member of the Nazi elite. After World War II, she denied knowing about the killing of “racially inferior” groups, butthere is evidence that on September 12, 1939, she and her film crew witnessed the mass murder of Jews by Wehrmacht soldiers in Konskie, Poland, and in 1940 she used the unpaid labor of 120 gypsy prisoners from concentration camps, despite knowing their ultimate fate, to film Valley. She directed three iconic propaganda films, which became classic examples of ideological documentaries: The Victory of Faith (1933), Triumph of the Will (1935), and Day of Freedom: Our Wehrmacht (1935), which were followed later by the two-part film Olympia (1938), the American and British premieres of which were cancelled due to the news of the Night of the Broken Glass. From the moment they met, she had his full support. In 1932, impressed by Hitler's campaign speech, Riefenstahl wrote to him seeking a meeting. She became famous with the release of her film The Blue Light. ![]() German actress, director and photographer. In 1995, she published her memoir, The Bitter Sweetness of My Life, in which she wrote about the elite of the Third Reich and admittedher affair with Goebbels, which she had denied all her life. Baarova spent the last 20 years of her life in obscurity and poverty in Salzburg. Lida was freed by an admirer with family ties in the post-war government of Czechoslovakia who fled with her to Austria. During the investigation, her younger sister committed suicide. Instead of facing execution for working for the Nazis, she was sentenced to prison, having proven in court that she was filming in Germany before World War II. In April 1945, she was arrested by the Americans. In 1941, she moved to Italy, and after the American occupation, to Prague. ![]() Baarova was banned from cinema, and none of her films were shown. Hitler refused to let him go and forbade the minister from seeing his mistress, which drove Goebbels to attempt suicide on October 15, 1938. She gave in to her neighbor Goebbels’ persistent advances(Magda Goebbels suggested Baarova "find a compromise" and "share Joseph"), but theaffair was ended by Hitler at the request of Magda after Goebbels resigned and sought to divorce her and move abroad with Baarova. She turned down an invitation to Hollywood and a seven-year contract with MGM Studios, later coming to believe that she could have surpassed the worldwide fame of Marlene Dietrich. Baarovaachieved stardomin Germany with the release of the film Barcarolle (1935). She would visit him privately in the Reich Chancellery for tea. In 1934, she moved to Germany at the invitation of the Ufa Film Studio, where she was introduced to Hitler and made an enormous impression on him due to her resemblance to his dead lover, AngelaRaubal. In this situation, so familiar even today, a noble person who thinks not only of his or herself is often defeated by the selfish people who are intent on saving their own skin and who show the worst qualities brought out by war - no matter whose side they belong to.Ĭzech actress, German film star, and mistress of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Each of these members is guided primarily by selfish motives, adhering to the principle that “charity begins at home”. The” Black Book” reflects the internal squabbles of the Dutch resistance, not all of whose members treat the Jews well. She changes her name to a less Jewish sounding Ellis de Vries and joins one of the Dutch resistance units, on whose orders she has an affair with SS-Hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze (Sebastian Koch), thereby putting herself at risk on both sides: either the Nazis will expose her association with the underground or the underground will accuse her of being a traitor. However, they are betrayed and all are killed apart from Rachel. Through the aid of a lawyer called Smaal (Dolf de Vries) she joins a group of fellow Jewish refugees who are trying to travel south to the liberated part of the country. The film starts in September 1944 and Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) is the German Jewish heroine in occupied Netherlands, whose house where she is hiding is destroyed by an Allied bomber. Paul Verhoeven worked on the script for more than 20 years while he comprehensively studied the history of the Dutch resistance which was riven by divisions and not a simple matter of the good guys against the baddies. Starring: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch ‘Black Book’ (2006, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom) ![]()
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