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...NASTY GIRL. A Bavarian schoolgirl starts poking into her hometown's Nazi past and becomes the local scourge. Michael Verhoeven turns social satire into exhilarating comedy. And Lena Stolze is a perky paradigm for young Germans unafraid of old demons...
...Lena Stolze made her film debut nine years ago as a student opposing Hitler in Verhoeven's The White Rose. As Sonja she is greatly winning, and the film bathes in her saucy radiance. She whistles when Sonja is happy, and when the crusade finally turns her way, she can't repress an exuberant yodel. Sonja wants to be Joan of Arc, but she's really Nancy Drew, doggedly sleuthing until she cracks a dark mystery. She can tolerate everything -- the aged Reichmongers cloaked in propriety, the goons who threaten her children -- everything but acceptance. When the town finally acknowledges...
Lasting enmities have been born in queues, as have fast friendships. Nikolai and Lena met as students while waiting for a table in a popular cafe. They never got inside, but 20 years of wedded bliss and two children prove that some marriages are made not in heaven but in line...
...Gardner SHOW BOAT. She received mixed reviews for her 1951 portrayal of mixed-blood singer Julie La Verne, a part denied to Lena Horne. Gardner's songs were dubbed for the film...
...have hidden from it for most of the war. Now it is 1949, and he lives in New York with, eventually, three loving women: his Polish Gentile wife Yadwiga (Margaret Sophie Stein), whom he married out of gratitude for protecting him in the old country; his passionate mistress Masha (Lena Olin), whom the Holocaust has driven to a volcanic indecision between childbearing and suicide; and his long-lost first wife Tamara (Anjelica Huston), whom he had thought dead in the camps...