Maria schrader is your regular jewish american princess, only shes neither american nor a princessshes a lesbian in hitlers nazi germany. A film by max farberbock in 1943, while the allies are bombing berlin and the gestapo is purging the capital of jews, a dangerous love affair. It was written and directed by max farberbock and based on erica fischer des book chronicling the actual lives of lilly wust and felice schragenheim during that time. In 1943, while the allies are bombing berlin and the gestapo is purging the capital of jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women. Watching aimee and jaguar is like having your eyes anxiously affixed on a cracked mirror on the wall, delicately held together, yet on the brink of violently shattering to the ground. Rent aimee and jaguar 1998 on dvd and bluray netflix. Juliane kohler, left, and maria schrader in aimee and jaguar. In 1943, while the allies are bombing berlin and the gestapo is purging the capital of jews, a dangerous love. Maria schrader, juliane kohler, johanna wokalek, heike makatsch en detlev buck. See what the critics had to say and watch the trailer.
A bold, remarkable film thats both a wrenching reallife wartime romance and a powerful evocation of berlin during the allied bombing, told entirely from a german. Lilly wust is alive today, at 85, and is the subject of a book that inspired the film. If a screenwriter had conjured up lesbian love in the third reich, it. It was written and directed by max farberbock and based on erica fischer des. Ive been wanting to watch this movie for a while now, because despite the fact that there are a lot of holocaustwwii films out there, there are only a handful that focus on the experience of people from the lgbtq community. Pixars soul, disneys jungle cruise, marvels black widow and more. Aimee and jaguar add to watchlist this motion picture tells the story of two women living in a dark and dangerous time, forced to bear the harsh conditions that the countrys current status forces upon them. The film, aimee and jaguar, is the true story of the two women, a tale of amour fou in a state of emergency. Aimee and jaguar is a film about how two young women fall in love. In 1943, while the allies are bombing berlin and the gestapo is purging the capital of jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women one a jewish member of the underground, the other an.
Its crazy just to think about that without hearing any particular, but when one discovers that one woman is married to a nazi and one is a jewess. Felice, an intelligent and courageous jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Aimee and jaguar is based on erica fischers bestselling book, which was published in 1994 and has been translated into numerous languages. If it were fiction, it would be accused of being utterly unbelievable. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is desperate for love. Aimee and jaguar is a true story, and a fascinating, it records a love story between two women in the middle of wwii berlin. The two women make a love pact and try to block out the antijewish persecution of the nazi movement, but their time is running out. The doomed affair that inspired a touching film film. Based on a true story, this awardwinning film is about the passionate love affair in 1940s berlin between a seemingly normal nazi housewife and a bohemian jewess who belongs to the underground. The movie also does a great job of portraying lesbian love as just as valid and intimate as heterosexual love.
While aimee and jaguar is both a film that is set during wwii and the central characters form a lesbian relationship. Biografie drama film geregisseerd door max farberbock. Instead, aimee and jaguar, which opens today at the quad, quickly turns pastoral and romantic no mean feat for a film set in wartime berlin, but there always seem to be limpid ponds and. Whether or not it is recognized by religion or government, aimee and jaguar are married. This handsomely staged production was the featurefilm debut from. Married to a nazi officer who is away fighting on the eastern front, she meets, is courted by, and is seduced by a brash, beautiful lesbian. Max farberbocks debut film, based on fischers book, is the true story of this extraordinary relationship. A bold, remarkable film thats both a wrenching reallife wartime romance and a powerful evocation of berlin during the allied bombing, told entirely from a german perspective. This is a beautiful story and a haunting film, set in crumbling berlin near the end of germanys second run at world domination. One is a nazi supporting women, and the other is a jew. An unusual and passionate love between them blossoms despite the.
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