The haunting Leone in Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr (1932), Sybille Schmitz remains perhaps the most unusual of Nazi-era German stars, her tragic fate long remembered by such postwar filmmakers as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who based his Veronica Voss (1981) partially on her. Dark and with enormous brooding eyes, Schmitz's almost somnambulistic beauty was perfect for Dreyer's vampire allegory but Ufa...
