She turned down Hollywood to become Goebbels' lover: Lída Baarová
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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Tatiana Pauhofová Karl Markovics Gedeon Burkhard Zdenka Procházková Simona Stašová Martin Huba Anna Fialová Pavel Kříž Jiří Mádl Lenka Vlasáková Michal Dlouhý Hana Vagnerová Karel Dobrý David Novotný Helena Dvořáková Miroslav Táborský Jiří Štrébl Igor Bareš Jan Révai Timothy Otis Matěj Dadák Jiří Dvořák Alois Švehlík Jana Plodková Kateřina Klausová Evženie Nízká Jan Slovák Petr Halberstadt Jan Lepšík Petr Vondráček Ondřej Malý Jiří Ployhar Zuzana Pillmann Marie Borseníková Johana Matoušková Karolina Steiner Václav Chalupa Jakub Šlégr Jiří Jurtin Servác Doležal Dominika Doležalová Šarlota Durďáková Stella Řeháková Veronika Švestková Meda Vilímová Geneva Dubská Juwana Jenkins Petr Hanzlík Doris Lamošová Sofie Lamošová Adéla Zeifart Petra Navrátilová
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