Vera Tschechowa

Vera Tschechowa, born Vera Rust, was a German actress, producer, director and screenwriter of Russian descent. She acted until 1996 and was widely known as Elvis Presley's companion in Germany in 1959. Vera Tschechowa appears nude in Das Amulett des Todes, a film released in 1975. She was born on July 22, 1940, in Berlin, Germany, and died there on April 3, 2024. Critics praised her work as Ulla Wickweber in Das Brot der frühen Jahre. In 1971 her name ran on the Stern cover among women who said they had had abortions. She co-founded Atossa Filmproduktion in 1980 and later directed documentaries and television portraits. Her autobiography, Überwiegend heiter: Mein ziemlich bewegtes Leben, came out in 2022.