Stella. A Life. (2023)

After being turned into a musical and a novel, the true story of Stella Goldschlag (Paula Beer) is adapted for the screen in this 2023 drama. A German Jewish woman living in Berlin and trying to make it as a jazz singer during World War II, Stella is determined to avoid deportation and continue her career. Along with her parents, Toni (Katja Riemann) and Gerd (Lukas Miko), and her forger fiancé Rolf (Jannis Niewöhner), Stella does her best to avoid being arrested, but the Gestapo eventually captures and tortures them. How does Stella survive? She and Rolf agree to help the Nazis by hunting down and ratting out other Jews. It’s a fateful decision that eventually leads to two separate post-war trials and convictions. Was Stella just a cold-hearted opportunist? Did decades of guilt over her betrayal lead to her suicide? Does Paula Beer go nude? Now that last question we can answer. Paul strips down and flashes some boob in the bathtub and bed, then her peepers come peeking out of her 1940s undergarments in two other moments that straddle the line between sexy and startling. Her bare breasts will have you fighting your own Battle of the Bulge!