Aimée & Jaguar

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Movie
Original title Aimée & Jaguar
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1999
length 121 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Max Färberböck
script Max Färberböck ,
Rona Munro
production Günter Rohrbach ,
Hanno Huth ,
Lew Rywin
music Jan AP Kaczmarek
camera Tony Imi
cut Barbara Hennings
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Aimée & Jaguar is a film by Max Färberböck . It was shot in 1998 and released in theaters in 1999 . The plot is based on the book of the same name by Erica Fischer , published in 1994 , in which the memories of Lilly Wust and other contemporary witnesses were compiled.

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The film is based on actual events and experiences of Lilly Wust in Berlin at the time of National Socialism in 1943 and 1944. The focus is on the love of a non-Jew for a Jew. In contrast to the book, which contains several perspectives, the film has a single narrative thread. The plot differs partially from the descriptions in the book and from the actual events. The real Lilly Wust emphasized in a television interview that she had never been beaten by her husband Günther at the time (in the film he slapped her in the face), and she did not spend her old age in a retirement home either.

Felice Schragenheim is a Jewish woman who takes on a false name and belongs to an underground organization . She works in a newsroom where she has access to classified information. Lilly Wust is a married mother of four children who is unhappy in her marriage to a bank employee who was drafted into the Wehrmacht . Felice takes the initiative in the love affair with Lilly. Lilly is fascinated by Felice's strength and joy and falls in love with Felice. She feels that she can give love to a cosmopolitan woman rather than a man. One day, Lilly's husband comes home on leave and finds Lilly in bed with Felice. Her husband then confronts her. Lilly tells him that she never loved him and wants a divorce from her husband. He later dies at the front.

The film contains sensual, erotic encounters and tender love poems taken from the book. In a love scene, a line from a poem is quoted that Lilly describes as a lover (Aimée) and Felice as a jaguar.

Felice is so preoccupied with the anti-Nazi underground movement and her own survival that she cannot see Lilly every day. Once, Lilly is very upset about it and demands that Felice share her secret with her, otherwise the relationship would end. Only now does Felice reveal to her that she is Jewish.

Terrified of their discovery, Felice and her Jewish friends organize their escape from Germany. However, shortly before leaving, Felice decides to live the love of her life and stays with Lilly in Berlin. But she was soon taken to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , from where she did not return.

The actual plot of the film is embedded in two scenes in 1997. The film begins in 1997 when 83-year-old Lilly moves into a retirement home. Lilly's maid, Ilse, who was arrested in 1945, already lives there. At the end of the film, Lilly and Ilse remembered. Although Lilly is saddened by the tragedy she caused for her friend and lover, she cannot imagine how her life could have been any different given her obsessive live-this-morning-we-die-us mood.

background

The outdoor shots were made in Breslau .

The audio film version was made in 2003. It was spoken by Katja Schild and produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk .

Reviews

“And in the secondary characters, the director Max Färberböck proves his flair for subtle characterization. These are people who are left with contradictions and secrets ... "

- Georg Seeßlen in : Die Zeit , 07/1999

TV Spielfilm 4/1999 described the film as authentic and exciting , and the cast was praised as excellent .

TV Today 4/1999 praised the rousing performances by Maria Schrader and Juliane Köhler.

Cinema 2/1999 described the film as worth seeing , TV Movie 4/1999 as passionate .

Awards

literature

  • Erica Fischer : Aimée & Jaguar. A love story, Berlin 1943. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 978-3-462-03499-8 .
  • Erica Fischer: The short life of the Jewess Felice Schragenheim. "Jaguar", Berlin 1922 - Bergen-Belsen 1945. With photos by Christel Becker-Rau. dtv, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-423-30861-3 .
  • Malgorzata Pakier: The Construction of European Holocaust Memory. German and Polish Cinema after 1989 (= Series: Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory ). Lang, Frankfurt 2013, pp. 66–72, 75–82, 90–96, ISBN 978-3-631-61903-2 (Dissertation University [Warsaw], 192 pages, 22 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aimee & Jaguar in Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
  2. ^ Critique by Georg Seeßlen at getidan.de