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Venom A diva in Exile

Audience Score
100
Venom  A diva in Exile
NR 29 min
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Venom A Diva in Exile is based on the short story by writer Zsófia Bán on the troubling story of Hungarian singer and film star Katalin Karády She was accused of spying during the war imprisoned tortured and banned on radio and in theatres in her home country After her release she worked hard to save numerous Jewish families while the disappearance of the man she was linked to first arrested by the Nazis and then by the Soviets threw her into despair Heartbroken marginalized and banished in the new communist regime she went into exile in 1951 spending fifteen years in Sao Paulo Brazil never to act in a film or on stage again Then he lived in New York until his death 1990