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Frans Weisz

Charlotte

Edition 1981
96' - 1980 - War, Drama, Biography - Dialogue: Dutch, English
Director: Frans Weisz Composer: Egisto Macchi With: Birgit Doll, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Brigitte Horney
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.

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Credits

Director

Frans Weisz

Composer

Egisto Macchi

With

Birgit Doll, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Brigitte Horney

Scenario

Frans Weisz, Judith Herzberg

Director of Photography

Jerzy Lipman, Theo van de Sande

Editor

Clarissa Ambach

Producer

Artur Brauner, Mario Gallo

More information

Dialogue

Dutch, English

Countries of production

Italy, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, West Germany

Year

1980

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