Leo and Claire

Movie
German title	Leo and Claire
Original title	Leo and Claire
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2001
length	103 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Joseph Vilsmaier
script	Reinhard Klooss , Klaus Richter , Joseph Vilsmaier
production	Reinhard Kloos, Joseph Vilsmaier
music	Gert Wilden
camera	Joseph Vilsmaier
cut	Hans Funck
occupation
Michael Degen : Leo Katzenberger Suzanne von Borsody : Claire Katzenberger Alexandra Maria Lara : Käthe Katzenberger Jasmin Schwiers : Lilo Katzenberger Franziska Petri : Irene Scheffler Jochen Nickel : Paul Steinheil Andrea Sawatzki : Helga Steinheil Natalie Spinell : Magda Steinheil George Lenz : Bernhard Freimann Axel Milberg : caretaker Maisel Dietmar Schönherr : Lawyer Herz Jürgen Schornagel : Judge Rothaug Andreas Hofer : Public Prosecutor Markl Kai Wiesinger : Gestapo man Nicky Kantor : Alex Haeberlein Nina Hoger : Lisbeth Haeberlein Michael Brandner : Fritz Haeberlein Roland Eugen Beiküfner : Pawn Shop Official

Leo and Claire is a German movie from 2001 by Joseph Vilsmaier with Michael Degen , Franziska Petri and Suzanne von Borsody in the leading roles.

action

Germany between 1933 and 1942 : Leo Katzenberger runs a shoe store in Nuremberg . He is a jew. And he rented a studio to Irene. Irene is young, blonde, sexy and a photographer . Enough material for the middle-class neighborhood to talk about gossip. She seals Leo a relationship with her. Leo is denounced, arrested for racial disgrace and ultimately sentenced to death .

The trial culminates in the judge's argument that racial disgrace is worse than murder .

background

The film is based on real events: it was the most famous case of perversion of the law during the Nazi era. The Katzenberger case is also dealt with in the US feature film Judgment of Nuremberg , which deals with the Nuremberg legal process in which Judge Oswald Rothaug was sentenced to life imprisonment after the war .

The basis of the film is the book "The Jew and the Girl" by Christiane Kohl . The title of the book, which emphasizes the relationship between Leo Katzenberger and Irene Seiler / Scheffler, was changed by the producers at the request of the Katzenberger family to bring Leo's wife Claire, who plays a supporting role in the story, to the fore.

Reviews

“The fact-based film gives away a lot of its potential effect through an uninspired staging, the sometimes too woodcut-like figure drawing and the not consistently safe ensemble. Nonetheless, through some succinct scenes, the captivating play of the two main characters and the enormity of the unpunished judicial murder, it stimulates discussion about the unresolved German past. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• Leo and Claire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Leo and Claire at filmportal.de
• Odeon film page about Leo and Claire
• Leo and Claire at moviepilot.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for Leo and Claire . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2014 (PDF; test number: 89 550 V).
2. ↑ Cinema: "Leo and Claire" - The naked facts at sueddeutsche.de
3. ↑ Leo and Claire. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 11, 2016 .