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Charlotte (1981)

Biography | 96 minutes / 97 minutes (Duitsland)
2,98 42 votes

Genre: Biography / War

Duration: 96 minuten / 97 minuten (Duitsland)

Alternative title: Charlotte S.

Country: Netherlands / West Germany / United Kingdom / Italy

Directed by: Frans Weisz

Stars: Birgit Doll, Elisabeth Trissenaar and Derek Jacobi

IMDb score: 6,6 (134)

Releasedate: 26 February 1981

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Charlotte plot

Charlotte Salomon is a young Jewish woman who flees Berlin in 1939 and settles with her grandparents in the south of France, in the hope that she will be safe there from the Nazis. Her beloved Daberlohn stays behind. When the war puts an end to her love for the 'Aryan' Daberlohn, Charlotte starts drawing. Like a maniac. She made almost 1000 drawings. All about her past life in Berlin. Very expressive images that she provides with personal commentary. She finds herself through her artworks.

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renske

  • 1105 messages
  • 926 votes

Difficult term, 'Dutch'. Because the writers, the director and some actors are, but the locations, the story and the language are not. I often found the English used cringe-worthy, except when Jacobi had lyrics because that man can do something magical with lyrics that take your breath away. I have a little more difficulty watching Jacobi, just as I found the love scenes with Doll unbelievable: that man is so obviously gay that his kiss with a woman seems very unnatural to me.

And although the images seem to have been chosen with the utmost care (which seems to me to be a prerequisite for a film), they raise a different kind of questions for me than I think the makers wanted. Questions like: who is that? Why is that woman there in the picture? What's that flashback doing there? What is being suggested here? Is she younger here now? In other words: I started to feel stupid as a viewer. Something is being said here, but I am not being made part of it. And that's what I want as a viewer.

I was missing a story, a framework. I simply wanted more information. That really bothered me, especially in the beginning. Later Jacobi joined in: that lightened things up. The leading actress has a beautiful head to look at. My heart also skipped a beat when the drawings were introduced. I really like the form she uses, in which the texts are also drawn.

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hvdriel

  • 372 messages
  • 340 votes

I saw the film again more than 40 years later and am impressed. Unconventionally told almost non-story with poetic, sometimes abstract images with two storylines:

- a remarkable love story that makes you wonder if it is even a love story

- how an insecure girl discovers her talent

Here Frans Weisz proves himself to be a filmmaker of international stature and with Judith Herzberg as a gifted screenwriter.

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