Berlin’s suburb of Babelsburg was home to Germany’s pre-war ‘Hollywood’ and its leading production company Universum Film AG (Ufa) who’d contracted the popular Swedish singer & actress Zarah Leander who, born, Zarah Stina Heberg in Karlstad in 1907, had been a star of Sweden’s ‘silver screen’ in the early 30s.
Hollywood beckoned, but newly divorced with small children she stayed in Europe and, fluent in German, looked to the Reich where, in 1936, she earned a Ufa movie contract, but known as a tough negotiator she demanded huge salaries, paid in Swedish Kroner, much to Propagandaminister Goebbels’ annoyance, who dubbed her an "Enemy of Germany". However, loved by Hitler and a performer in ten of Ufa’s most successful films, her career flourished playing the role of a Femme Fatale.
Duration : 41mins. Price : UK £14.95 (inc UK p & p) Overseas £15.95
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