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Date of the event

21. 4. 2016, 19⁰⁰ — 21. 4. 2016, 20³⁰

Place of the event

KC Panorama

Lida Baarova. Actress, for which her beauty was the greatest gift and a curse. Young and attractive girl quickly became the biggest movie star of Czechoslovakia and was able to conquer even the most feared man of his time. The relationship with the imperial propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, however, he immediately made a national enemy and symbol kolaborantství. Documentary filmmaker Helena Třeštíková with Baarová met in her foreign exile. At the end of the life of the actress he made an open confession once loved and then condemned the stars on a background of unique materials from several European film archives and examples of famous roles Lídy Barr. Story self-destructive love story based on the proportions of an ancient tragedy is fatally linked with European history and shows an extremely candid portrait of a woman whose career was lying on top of the world at your feet. That was then her monumental fall into oblivion and solitude. (Aerofilms)

Documentary
Czech, 2015, 90 min
Director: Helena Třeštíková, Jakub Hejna
Screenplay: Helena Třeštíková, Jakub Hejna
Camera: Martin Kubala, John Painter, Jiří Chod, Jaromir Nekuda
Music: Thaddeus Věrčák

Starring: Lida Baarova (az), Zorka Janů (az), Josef Goebbels (az), Vladimír Borský (az), Francis Čáp (az), Václav Krška (az), Adolf Hitler (az), Gustav Fröhlich (az) Karel Lamač (az), Svatopluk Benes (az), Oldrich Novy (az) - az = archival footage