Z jeviště na popraviště. Příběh herečky Anny Čalounové-Letenské
From the stage to the gallows story of actress Anna Čalounová-Letenská

Summary/Abstract: Anna Čalounová-Letenská was a gifted Czechoslovak theatre and movie actress whose popularity rose quickly during the Second World War. While fully occupied by her work and obtaining more and more prestigious roles, in private she joined the resistance against Nazi Power in the occupied Czechoslovakia side by side with her husband Vladislav Čaloun. This proved fatal for her soon aft er the successful assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak paratroopers on 27 May 1942. Letenská was in direct touch with a resistance group, which was helping the paratroopers immediately aft er their attack of Heydrich, and she was arrested soon as part of extensive repressive measures. She was released briefl y to finish her last fi lm, only to be sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp where she was executed in October 1942. Her last movie, a comedy entitled Přijdu hned (Will Be Right Back), was premiered in December 1942 and became a huge success.

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