The devil's lover
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The devil's lover |
| Original title | Lída Baarová |
| Country of production | Czech Republic , Slovakia |
| original language | Czech , German , English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Filip Renč |
| script | Ivan Hubač |
| production |
Peter Kovarčík Jiří Jurtin , Daniel Landa |
| music | Ondřej Soukup |
| camera | Petr Hojda |
| cut | Luděk Hudec |
| occupation | |
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The Devil's Lover (original title Lída Baarová ) is a Czech - Slovak feature film by Filip Renč from 2016 with Tatiana Pauhofová as Lída Baarová , Karl Markovics as Joseph Goebbels and Gedeon Burkhard as Gustav Fröhlich . The film was released in Czech and Slovakian cinemas in January 2016 and in Austrian cinemas on April 15, 2016. The first broadcast on ORF took place on November 9, 2019.
action
The film is about the relationship between the Czechoslovak actress Lída Baarová and Joseph Goebbels . Looking back, before her death in Salzburg in 2000 , the elderly Baarová told a young journalist, the granddaughter of murdered Jews, the story of her life.
The young Lída Baarová is already a well-known actress in her home country. In order to pursue a great career, she and her equally ambitious mother traveled from Prague to Berlin in 1934 to audition for the film Barcarole , which was shot in the Babelsberg studio , among other places . She is hired by the UFA , her film partner becomes Gustav Fröhlich , who soon becomes her lover. The actress also caught the attention of Joseph Goebbels, who as Reich Propaganda Minister is also responsible for the film. An affair develops between the two. Lída is supported by Goebbels, who is even considering leaving his wife, and is very successful. The affair comes to an abrupt end when Magda Goebbels , who initially accepts a triangular relationship, intervenes with Adolf Hitler . The Baarová is dropped. Without Goebbels support, Lída is now no longer allowed to make films or leave the Reich.
After the November pogroms in 1938 , she finally managed to escape home with the support of assistant director Hans Fischer. After the end of the Second World War , she was arrested as a Nazi collaborator and charged with high treason . She was threatened with the gallows. Her mother dies during an interrogation, her sister Zorka Janů, also an actress, takes her own life after she is hostile to Lída because of her relatives and cannot find a job. Her father sacrifices a sick leg because of Lída in order to save her from the gallows at the last second by going to the Ministry of Justice and asking for a pardon. The request is granted and Lída is released.
synchronization
The German dubbing was done by the Cologne-based recording studio Krauthausen GmbH .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Ljuba Hermannová | Evženie Nízká | Anna-Christina Reske |
| Magda Goebbels | Lenka Vlasáková | Susanne Reuter |
production
The shooting took place from April 3, 2015 to June 6, 2015, and the shooting took place in the Czech Republic , France and Germany . In addition to Prague and Brno , the locations were also Špindlerův Mlýn , where the scenes that take place in Davos were shot. Scenes that take place in the Babelsberg studio were shot in the Barrandov film studio .
The film was produced by the Czech NOGUP Agency , co-producers were the Czech Daniel Severa Production and the Slovak Arina Film Production . Zdeněk Flemming was responsible for the equipment and Jan Růžička for the costume design.
reception
Norbert Mayer described the film in the daily newspaper Die Presse as a kitsch melodrama . The political would be covered with kitsch , instead of the fear and misery of the Third Reich, beautiful images dominated. The scenes towards the end, when the former star is imprisoned in Czechoslovakia in the post-war period, are a little more realistic. The intercuts with the aged Baarová, played by Zdenka Hartmann-Procházková, would be particularly intense .
Jörg Schiffauer, who wrote in Ray Filmmagazin , had a similar judgment that Filip Renč had staged the film primarily as a great melodrama in opulent settings. One is tempted to draw a comparison with relevant UFA productions on the formal level . Renč draws a picture of Baarová as a primarily naive woman whose only mistake, according to her own definition, was to have fallen in love with the wrong man. Ignorance to this extent appears to be negligent handling of historical truth.
Awards and nominations
Český lev 2017
- Nomination in the category Best Supporting Actress (Simona Stasová)
- Nomination in the category Best Production Design (Zdeněk Flemming)
- Nomination in the category Best Film Music (Ondřej Soukup)
Web links
- The mistress of the devil in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The devil's mistress at crew united
- The devil's mistress on thimfilm.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for The Devil's Beloved . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Lída Baarová (2016): Release Info . Retrieved November 3, 2019.
- ↑ ORF premiere: The Devil's Beloved. In: ORF.at . Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ The Devil's Beloved. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Lída Baarová (2016): Filming & Production . Retrieved November 3, 2019.
- ↑ Výtečná herečka Lída Baarová zahraje i chytrou, Soudi Filip Renč. February 5, 2015, accessed on November 3, 2019 (cz).
- ↑ Norbert Mayer : "The Devil's Beloved": Sex with Goebbels to Wagner music. In: The press . April 16, 2016, accessed November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Jörg Schiffauer: The Devil's Beloved / Lída Baarová: A fateful affair. In: Ray Film Magazine . April 2016, accessed November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Lída Baarová (2016): Awards . Retrieved November 3, 2019.