Charlotte

Charlotte
FRG/NL 1980. Dir: Frans Weisz. 95 min. Engl. OV.
With Birgit Doll, Derek Jacobi, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Brigitte Horney, Max Croiset, Peter Capell

Touching drama about Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, who – while in exile in France – did draw a colorful “storyboard” of her life in Berlin with her famous gouache cycle “Leben? OderTheater? Ein Singespiel”. In 1943, she, 26 years old and five months pregnant, was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, while her father and stepmother managed to escape to the Netherlands.

Introduction: Rommy Albers