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DEADLY DAMES – Vera Renczi

Vera Renczi

The story of Vera Renczi, a stunningly beautiful Romanian woman, always dressed in black, was first published in the USA in May 1925. After that, the story surfaced repeatedly, without any documentary support about the specific dates of her birth, marriage, arrest or death. She reportedly confessed about poisoning 35

MOVIE MANIA – A Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

courageous-heart

''The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler’' (2009), a television film directed by John Kent Harrison, focuses on Irena Sendler, a young Polish social worker, who smuggled more or less 2,500 Jewish children to safety during WW II. The background of the movie is the early 1940’s in Warsaw, Poland. Two years into the war and

DEADLY DAMES – Griselda Blanco Restrepo

Griselda Blanco Restrepo

Griselda Blanco Restrepo, the infamous drug trafficker, was born in Cartagena, on the country's north coast of Colombia, on 15th February 1943. In her later life she was popularly known as La Madrina or Godmother. Apart from that, she was also known as the Black Widow, the Cocaine Godmother and the Queen of

MOVIE MANIA – Salon Kitty

Salon Kitty

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany, where the military officers and the dignitaries can relax. She owned the facility all through her life. The aim of the brothel during the war was to seduce German military officers, dignitaries, and diplomats with women and alcohol so that they could express

DEADLY DAMES – Ilse Koch

Ilse Koch

Ilse Koch is the name of the devil woman who used to make lampshades from the skin of the prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp. She was every bit an evil, she was rightly nicknamed ‘The Bitch of Buchenwald’ for her barbarism and sadism. Born to a factory foreman in Dresden

MOVIE MANIA – Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) is a 1972 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullman. The film is all about pain, death, love, lust, hate, and self-loathing which create almost a claustrophobic feeling. The story is set on

PASSIONATE PAINTINGS – Bacchus and Ariadne

Bacchus and Ariadne

Bacchus and Ariadne (1522–1523) is an oil painting by Titian based on the subject derived from the Roman poets Catullus and Ovid, about Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, the king of Crete. Ariadne is mostly associated with mazes and labyrinths because of her involvement in the myths of the Minotaur and Theseus. Her father put

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