Adina mandlová

Primary Sources

(1) Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End (1980)

A scandal erupted when the beautiful Czech film star Lida Baarova entered his adoring circle. She exercised such a spell over Goebbels that he quite lost his head and almost wrecked his until then happy marriage with wife Magda. His Secretary of State, Karl Hanke, the personal confidante who knew about Goebbels's affairs, was a person who held Frau Goebbels in the highest regard and was thus at a loss to know which road he should now follow. He came and asked me "to arrange a date to see the Fuhrer", which I did, and now Hitler discovered what lay behind all the rumours. Frau Goebbels wanted a divorce and to emigrate to Switzerland, causing Hitler to envisage for himself a major scandal. He decided to attempt a reconciliation of the couple and invited them both to Obersalzberg. There he received them separately. In individual conversations he explained to them that they must relegate their personal interests to those of the state. The separation was prevented. In the Berghof Gre

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Lída Baarová

ABOUT FILM

An epic drama detailing the relationship between the legendary Czech actress and the Nazi Minister of Propaganda opens when Lída Baarová, starring as an exotic beauty in the film Barcarole, first captures the hearts of thousands of new fans in Germany. She also enjoyed and benefitted from the fame and affection of actor Gustav Fröhlich, and nor did the Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler hide his admiration for the Czech actress. It was Joseph Goebbels, head of the film industry and Minister of Propaganda, however, who thrust Lída into the higher echelons of society, with regular invitations to magnificent parties. She was enchanted, and indeed Baarová succumbed completely to his charms – a potentially fatal attraction. She spent the war largely in her native Prague, and after liberation was charged with collaboration.

• live action feature film
• Czech Republic / 2016
• Filmed on location in Brno: Mahen Theatre, Stiassni Villa, Villa Tugendhat
  
• photos courtesy of: Julie Vrabelová / Česká televize
• screenplay: Ivan Hubač
• direction:
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  Lída Baarová

  Lída Baarova (born Ludmila Babková 7 September 1914 in Prague – 27 October 2000) was a Czech actress. She studied acting at Conservatory and received her first film roles in Pavel Čamrda's Career (Kariéra Pavla Čamrdy), filming was forbidden for students, she made up pseudonym Lída Baarova after her father's friend J.Š.Baar at age 17. The film was successful, so she had to leave the conservatory.

  Her life

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  Lída was born in family of Karel Babka,an official of the Prague City Hall, his wife Ludmila Babková, opera singer and piano player, occasionally sang in the choir of National Theatre. They also had second daughter Zorka, who was actress as well.In 1934 Lída was chosen by the German UFA to act the lead role in, Barcarolle. Film that made her huge star overnight. Media marked her as mistress of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. On the orders of Hitler himself, however, she had to leave, so she left Germany in 1939. She left to Italy, where before the war returned to Prague. At the end of the war fled to Germany but was i