9 Actors Who Died TWICE Horribly The Same Exact Way In Different Movies
2. Kristina Söderbaum - Suicide By Drowning (Jud Süß & The Golden City)
You probably haven't heard of Nazi-era German actress Kristina Söderbaum, but that makes her legendary reputation for cinematic death no less fascinating.
Söderbaum earned the nickname "Reichswasserleiche," meaning "Drowned Corpse of the Reich," due to the fact that she appeared in three films between 1938 and 1942 where her character drowned.
In two of these films it gets even more specific - Söderbaum's characters die due to suicidal drowning. In the 1940 propaganda film Jud Süß, Söderbaum's protagonist Dorothea Sturm is raped by the film's villain and drowns herself as a result.
Two years later in the drama Die goldene Stadt (aka The Golden City), she plays protagonist Anna Jobst, who is abandoned by her father and at film's end drowns herself in the swamp that her mother also drowned herself in. Bleak.
Drowning twice, in both cases in supremely melodramatic fashion due to the actions of a man, in films released within two years of each other no less, sure is something.
But before we reveal our #1 pick, the following entry will contain MAJOR SPOILERS for the new Scream film...