CRITICAL – Making an artistic departure, the actress performs a reading of fictitious letters from Magda Goebbels at the Tristan-Bernard Theater. Chilling.
Serious face, chilling voice, Julie Depardieu embodies a personality whose name sends shivers down your spine: Magda Goebbels, born Maria Magdalena Behrend, November 11, 1901, in Berlin. She was the “first lady of the IIIe Reich” and had boundless admiration for Hitler, who reciprocated it. She is captivated by the infamous Joseph Goebbels the day he gave a speech full of fury and hatred at a meeting of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers’ Party). The Nazi will be her second husband.
Very well documented on the end of the Second World War, with Bunker, letters from Magda GoebbelsChristian Siméon recounts the “birth of a monster”. Through a fictional correspondence, he observes the metamorphosis of an innocent and cheerful teenager from high society who becomes a criminal mother, a “triple Medea” in the bunker, where she took refuge with her family and Hitler in 1945. All restraint and interiority, dressed in a black dress, the manuscript…