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In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.Read moreLess
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.
The story
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.
Cast & crew
Birgit DollCharlotte Salomon
Elisabeth TrissenaarPaulinka
Brigitte HorneyGrandma
Max CroisetAlbert
Peter CapellGrandfather
Derek JacobiDaberlohn
Peter FaberFrits Blech
Maria MachadoMrs. Schwartz
Shireen StrookerMukki
Patricia HodgeTeacher
Yoka BerrettyMrs. MorganExplore the crew
- Producer
- Mario Gallo
- Director of Photography
- Jerzy Lipman
- Director
- Frans Weisz
- Director of Photography
- Theo van de Sande
- Writer
- Frans Weisz
- Editor
- Clarissa Ambach
- Writer
- Judith Herzberg
- Producer
- Artur Brauner
- Original Music Composer
- Egisto Macchi
- Producer
- Jens-Peter Behrend
- Producer
- Robbert Wijsmuller