Sonja (Jördis Triebel) is one of the main antagonists of the revenge action movie, "Blood & Gold" (2023). Sonja is the greedy and cruel wife of a Nazi mayor of a German village, at the time of the end of World War II.
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The story begins with the arrival of a defeated SS army in a small German village, administered by a Nazi mayor named Richard and his wife Sonja, a woman as venal as she is opportunistic. Interrogating the Mayor, the terrifying military leader of the SS Division Von Starnfeld and his men are in search of a briefcase full of gold hidden by a Jewish family massacred during the war. If Sonja and her husband seem entirely devoted to the Nazi cause, it quickly turns out that they know where the missing gold is. Sonja puts pressure on her husband to flee the village with the Jewish gold they have stolen, so that she can lead the high life she has always dreamed of. Unlike her husband, this sophisticated woman seems more obsessed with gold than with the survival of her family and her two children.
Worried about appearances, the mayor and his wife offer to welcome the SS squad to the inn they own, demonstrating how opportunistic and hypocritical they are. Proof that she may not be such a faithful wife, Sonja plays the card of seduction and voluntarily entices the SS leader and his soldiers, under the eyes of her husband. Rather than risk the lives of his two children, Mayor Richard decides to reveal the Gold hideout to the SS, but he is brutally stopped by his traitorous wife and two of her henchmen who slaughter him with shovels. The sly and murderous Sonja offers these two henchmen to go dig up the gold, hidden in a tomb in the village cemetery, and share it. Of course, all of this is a lie; The idea being to let them dig and kill them in order to recover the gold for herself.But a problem arises when she thought she had found the gold at the bottom of the tomb, and it is no longer there. Only a Bible is found, with the underlined mention "Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not kill." In a panic at the idea of having her gold stolen, Sonja thinks back to the events of the past, and when the wealthy Jewish family was massacred, and she decided to steal their gold. She realizes that there was only one annoying witness, and that it is the village priest.
The murderous trio go in search of the priest in order to interrogate and torture him about where he hid the gold. Hitting the priest with a shovel, threatening him to kill his secret love ; Sonja gets an answer and where the clergyman has taken his gold. Full of greed, Sonja and her henchmen rush to the altar of the church, where the gold is stashed and which unfortunately for them has been trapped by grenades. The explosion kills her two henchmen, and Sonja is knocked out in a rather humorous way, when the prosthetic leg of one of her acolytes hits her in the head. A massacre between Nazis ensues in the church to retrieve the gold bars strewn on the floor, and Sonja eventually comes to her senses and gets up to kill the last living Nazi soldier and retrieve the gold. Would this be a happy ending for her? Well no, karma is often a bitch with greedy and cruel women. When the war is over, and finally thinking of leading the high life she always hoped for; Sonja happily drives away with her gold, leaving her children behind. Except that the shell of an American tank destroys her hopes, and hits her car, which explodes. Burned alive, she crawls in the grass towards her precious gold bars about to be stolen by American soldiers very unscrupulous about ethics and armistice rules. She ends up pushing a last moan, before dying alone.
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