The Devil's Mistress (2016)

Name: The Devil's Mistress
Director: Filip Renč
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Released: 2016-01-21
Duration: 1 h 51 min
Cast: Tatiana Pauhofová, Karl Markovics, Gedeon Burkhard, Zdenka Procházková

Drama History Romance

Director: Filip Renč

Cast: Tatiana Pauhofová, Karl Markovics, Gedeon Burkhard, Zdenka Procházková

Runtime111 min

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Salzburg, Germany, 2000. The elderly Czech actress Lída Baarová tells a journalist the tumultuous story of her rise to fame in 1930s Berlin and her passionate relationship with the sinister Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich.

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Fans of historical dramas and complex, morally ambiguous character studies will find much to appreciate in The Devil's Mistress, the 2016 film directed by Filip Renč. Centered on the real-life story of Czech actress Lída Baarová and her relationship with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, the film offers a visually striking and emotionally charged exploration of power, desire, and the compromises forced by life under a totalitarian regime.

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The Devil's Mistress 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.