Rent Aimee and Jaguar (1999)
3.5 of 5 from 80 ratings
2h 5min
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- Synopsis:
Nominated for a Golden Globe award and Germany's official submission for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, Max Faberbock's 'Aimee and Jaguar' is the tender, elegiac account of a forbidden love affair set against the backdrop of wartime Germany. In performances that garnered them Silver Bears at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival. Juliane Kohler (Lilly Wust) and Maria Schrader (Felice Schragenheim) play the eponymous Aimee & Jaguar, an example of Nazi motherhood and a politically committed Jew's respectively who embark on a transgressive love affair that will ultimately shatter their lives. Based on the acclaimed book by Erica Fischer 'Aimee and Jaguar' is an uplifting love story totally unlike any other. - Actors:
- Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek, Heike Makatsch, Elisabeth Degen, Detlev Buck, Inge Keller, Kyra Mladeck, Sarah Camp, Klaus Manchen, Margit Bendokat, Jochen Stern, Peter Weck, Lia Dultzkaya, Dani Levy, Hans-Christoph Blumenberg, Rüdiger Hacker, Rosel Zech, Ulrich Matthes, Dorkas Kiefer
- Directors:
- Max Färberböck
- Producers:
- Hanno Huth, Günter Rohrbach
- Writers:
- Max Färberböck, Rona Munro, Erica Fischer
- Aka:
- Aimee & Jaguar
- Studio:
- Optimum
- Genres:
- Drama, Lesbian & Gay, Romance
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Lesbian Cinema, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Films By Year, Top 10 Films of 1999
- Countries:
- Germany
- Awards:
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Reviews (1) of Aimee and Jaguar
Fascinating, Important German Film set in Berlin during WWII about Lesbian Life under the Nazis - Aimee and Jaguar review by PV
This is an important film - the Second World War has countless stories of individuals to tell, and this German film ensures the small number of open lesbians in Nazi Germany get their story told. Watch to the end to see what happens to the characters - this is apparently based on a true story, but is symbolic of all gay stories in the Reich really.
However, as a film it does drag on, and is rather overlong and perhaps lacks focus at times.
To be honest what I found most interesting was not all the love/sex interest and the lesbian theme. What fascinated me was this was set in Berlin during the war when the RAF were bombing - the scenes in 1944 are great, report of the Fuhrer's death after the suitcase bomb at the Wolf's Lair in Poland, and Hitler's speech on the radio are his actual words and voice, I think. I found all that fascinating, as a bit of a WWII buff.
Others will be more interested in the Sapphic stories. Fair enough.
4 stars
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