Die Geliebte des Teufels

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Mitreißendes Historien-Drama um die Lebensgeschichte von UFA-Star Lída Baarová. Die einst als schönste Frau ihrer Zeit titulierte Schauspielerin startet im Berlin der 30er Jahre ihre große Filmkarriere. Nach einer Beziehung mit ihrem Kollegen Gustav Fröhlich (Gedeon Burkhard) geht sie eine folgenschwere Affäre mit Reichspropagandaminister Joseph Goebbels ein - großartig gespielt von Karl Markovics! (ORF)

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Isherwood booo!

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Englisch An empty bubble, perfectly crafted tabloid PR and a desperate report on the state of domestic cinema all in one. I went into it with a preconceived notion, but I was still surprised at how terribly shallow it ended up being. There’s not even a hint of an attempt to get under the skin of any of the characters. Hubač and Renč ride a primitive wave that follows Goebbels' slimy stares and Lída's guileless naivety as a simpleton, with clouds of declamatory side characters around them that are completely useless for moving the plot along. Renč's incompetence as a director is fully manifested in all the meaninglessness as he masks all the primitiveness with camera kitsch, dubious editing, and a strange pleasure in exploitation, which allows relieved volleys of laughter to come out. Sometimes it amazes me how far creative ambitions actually go. ()

Malarkey 

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Englisch I won’t hide that I was truly looking forward to watching a film about Lída Baarová. I wanted to watch the story of one of the most tried Czech actresses from the First Republic and I was lured not only by the huge budget, but also by the actors who were a part of this project. Films like In the Shadow or Habermann's Mill proved that even in our country there is a lot of skillful people who can film a serious historical story. I went to see the film immediately after the Czech president Miloš Zeman and his spokesman Jiří Ovčáček saw it. That’s just as an introduction. Filip Renč’s filmmaking is a total routine but I admit that I really liked Guard No. 47. But then he really pissed me off by his support for the political party ODS and the final push was his filming of spots for Miloš Zeman at the time of his presidential candidacy. That is really lame. I believe that politics do not belong into art and never did. So, I really don’t give a shit that Zeman or Ovčáček saw the movie. I also don’t give a fuck that they liked it. Did Renč really need a pre-premiere for politicians, whom I personally consider to be human hyenas? If he is an artist, he is able to manage in other ways. This film was supported not only by the long-debated grants, but also by Daniel Landa along with some artists from Arabia, as he likes to say. So, it seems that Mr Renč can manage pretty well. Anyway, I would shut up, if I could at least say that the film is good. But it would really have to be good. The screenplay was quite okay. Lída’s story is incredibly strong and sad, so there was not much the screenwriter could have messed up. The problem is the directing. I don’t know where Renč gets his ideas from, and the lowest point is Lída’s sex scene with Goebbels. First we see the legs, where one is limping, then the camera moves into a fireplace where we watch the fire and then in that fire we see the faces of the two in sexual agony. That is probably the worst from the film. But I have to say that such scene was really sickening for me. At the same time, the pre-war atmosphere was done well and the actors tried their best. Táňa Pauhofová was great. The German actors also did not disappoint and Martin Huba and Jiří Mádl really pleased me. I even think that those two had the best characters of the whole movie. Pavel Kříž as Hitler also did not bother me. It’s a pity that Simona Stašová, whom I otherwise hold in high regard, plays a character like from some slapstick comedy. That really does not belong in a story like this one, which is my next issue with the movie. Personally, I’ve seen a lot of European dramas from the period of the Second World War. At times the stories were really strong and sad. However, I have never had a whole tough story lightened up by humor. It really does not belong in these stories and the worst of all that in this movie was, sadly, Mrs. Stašová. Mr Renč, you really cannot shoot a serious film seriously, can you? With everything it entails. After all, the Night of Broken Glass could have been an emotionally nerve-wrecking scene. I also anticipated that the finale would really knock me down. It was going in that direction, but then the director cut it off so quickly that I really didn’t know if I should laugh or cry. The three stars are really out of pity. Even though the movie pissed me a lot, in the end I got used to its narration. On the other hand, should I really be forced to getting used to a film’s narration? () (weniger) (mehr)

JFL booo!

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Englisch The story of Lída Baarová holds the potential for a great historical film, as well as for reflection on the essentially Czech and still unaddressed issue of the moral considerations of life under totalitarianism, or rather the national guilt of ethically ambivalent everyday existence under the past regimes. However, none of that comes across in this highly ridiculous yet soul-crushing mess. In the few scenes where the film touches on the life of Lída Baarová and her career in Nazi Germany, it offers up an insipid illustration in the best case, though it rather relies on superficial exploitation of the audience’s prejudices. The Nazi leaders, the Czech collaborators and finally the unhinged mother and the young journalist are probably intended to be great roles, but they never rise above the level of ridiculously stiff caricature. In addition to the passages with Goebbels, which go far beyond the boundaries of camp thanks to the overwrought acting, writing and directing, the film contains nonsensical sequences that take Baarová’s story into unexpected genre realms. Of these, the one that stands out the most is the etude that seems to have been cut out of a vulgar teen comedy, which is appropriately highlighted by the casting of Jiří Mádl. The narrative is another story. It takes a step toward the concept of an unreliable narrator, but due to its haphazardness, it ends up being a mere pile of nonsensical, impotently literal and boorishly phantasmagorical scenes that reek of paper, cocaine and stupidity. As a result, The Devil’s Mistress is neither a great biographical film nor powerful Nazisploitation, nor an ethical drama, nor just ordinary trash. Rather, it’s just a disarming fiasco whose main constants are poor judgment and incompetence. On the other hand, the project apparently had at least some ambition to show a controversial figure of 20th-century Czech history in a different light than as a demonised collaborator (though the image of a starlet blinded by love and her own fame is barely more flattering). Paradoxically, the film itself became a subject of controversy in modern Czech culture due to the involvement of neo-Nazis, the expenditure of enormous sums, which was definitely not apparent on the screen, and the strange sell-out in the form of a VIP-studded premiere, which in line with the phrase “life imitates art” mirrored the scene of a premiere with Goebbels in attendance. But perhaps in a few decades, the case of Renč, Hubač and Landa will serve as a preview for a similarly disorderly film that will show them as tragic greats blinded by their love for tyrants and themselves. ()

NinadeL 

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Deutsch Lassen wir einmal die Tatsache beiseite, dass der Name "Lída Baarová" nicht mehr der Name einer Schauspielerin ist, die von 1914 bis 2000 lebte und in den Kinos der Tschechoslowakei, Deutschlands, Österreichs, Italiens und Spaniens wirkte, dies und jenes erlebte und am Ende ihrer Karriere beim Theater blieb. Lída Baarová ist eine Affäre, seit Standa Motl in ihr Leben trat, und ein gesellschaftliches Ereignis, seit Filip Renč in ihr Schicksal eingriff. Baarová kam nach 1934 nach Deutschland und hatte nichts mit der Welt des frivolen, geschweige denn lesbischen Cabarets zu tun. Zellophan-Lametta, das leider nicht funktioniert. Die künstlerische Freiheit ist unglaubwürdig, und man sucht vergeblich nach Qualität in der Darstellung der Villa auf der Hanspaulka und nach Komik in der Nachstellung des größten Klatsches aus der Memoirenliteratur. Andererseits ist es mir persönlich ziemlich egal. Seit den 1970er Jahren wurden Filme über Anna Ondráková gedreht, und glücklicherweise hat sich keine derartige Hysterie um sie entwickelt. ()

D.Moore 

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Deutsch Dieser Film über Lída Baarová ist miserabel. Filip Renč dreht Filme, die nicht für mich gemacht sind. Manchmal sucht er sich aber leider ein Thema aus, das mich interessieren würde. Sein Film Die Geliebte des Teufels ist die meiste Zeit nur ungewollt lächerlich. Obwohl die Schauspieler*innen gut ausgewählt wurden, zeigen sie praktisch keine Leistung (am meisten ist es wahrscheinlich bei Hitler von Pavel Kříž zu sehen, der nur bis zu seinem ersten Satz nicht lächerlich wirkt, und bei Goebbels von Karl Markovics, der die meiste Zeit ein Gesicht wie ein Imitator von Robert de Niro macht). Das Drehbuch ist dumm; es ist entweder überflüssig explizit oder zu verkürzt. Das Publikum hat keine Chance, die Hauptheldin zu verstehen, geschweige denn über sie im Finale zusammen mit der jungen Studentin urteilen zu können. Und wohin ist das riesige Budget verschwunden? Ich habe wirklich keine Ahnung. Gleich die erste Szene hat nämlich einen hässlichen Fernsehcharakter. Und sie ist nicht die einzige. Der miserable Gesamteindruck wird durch ungewöhnlich bizarre Szenen (z. B. der "Liebesmoment“ und Gesichter in Flammen oder das Finale mit dem Ausschalten der Lampe) nur noch verstärkt – das kann doch um Gottes willen niemand ernst meinen! Mein einziger Trost ist die Tatsache, dass ich im Kino bei weitem nicht alleine so oft gelacht habe. ()

Goldbeater 

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Deutsch Wie konnte Filip Renč so etwas mit ernster Miene in die Welt rauslassen, das sollte mal Denkstoff für ihn sein. Ob es sich lohnt, solchen Schund mit Kinobesuchen zu unterstützen, ist eine Denkfrage für tschechische Zuschauer. Die Szene mit den Gesichtern in Flammen zeigt perfekt die Richtung, in die sich die tschechische Filmindustrie bewegt. Schrecklich. ()

claudel 

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Deutsch Filmchallenge in Quarantäne - Lieblingsschauspielerinnen, Táňa Pauhofová. Mir hat der Film sehr gut gefallen. Táňa Pauhofová ist eine reizende und intelligente Schauspielerin, die sich für einige Rollen besser eignet und für einige weniger. Wahrscheinlich werden wir uns alle einig sein, dass sie als Frau Burešová perfekt und nicht zu übertreffen war. Lída Baarová war eine andere Kategorie, auch wenn sich die Leute von der Maske große Mühe gegeben und sich angestrengt haben, ich verstehe, dass eine Reihe von Zuschauern und Fans stört, dass sie der berühmten tschechischen Schauspielerin aus den dreißiger und vierziger Jahren nicht ähnlich ist. Aber auch so hat sie sie toll gespielt. Hervorragend sind auch Goebbels bzw. Karl Markovics und selbstverständlich das Duo Stašová-Huba. Pavel Kříž in der Rolle des Adolf Hitler erschien mir leicht komisch. Doch was soll das schon, es handelt sich um die traurige und tragische Geschichte, die belegt, dass es schöne Frauen im Leben nicht immer einfacher haben und nicht auf Rosen gebettet sind. ()

kaylin 

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Englisch I can't help but like this film. It's not a clear statement about the fate of Lída Baarová; overall, it's conceived more as something that could have happened, but it could be distorted in itself. The Nazis are portrayed excellently here, and so the only thing that bothered me was that Táňa didn't fit with Lída Baarová at all. ()

wooozie 

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Englisch A film with ambitions and material for a European blockbuster, with a big budget (by Czech standards) and massive advertising campaign. But the result is disappointing - it’s been a long time since I saw such a disgustingly cheap piece of nonsense. Some characters are dubbed while others not, sometimes it’s exhaustingly lengthy, other times simplistic. Don't even get me started on the soundtrack. It is so inappropriate for the movie it almost made me cringe. If this is supposed to be Renč's masterpiece he had been waiting to make for years, I am afraid of what to expect from his next "regular" project. ()