Charlotte
Frans Weisz / DE, IT, GB, NL, 1980 / 94 min.
Frans Weisz, who died recently, depicts the life story of the German Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon. Her remaining water colours and texts, which she collected under the motto: ‘Leben oder Theater?’, served as Weisz’ point of departure for this poignant film.
At the close of the 1930s, Charlotte Salomon who was born in Berlin in 1917, fled from the Nazis to the south of France. Her father, a surgeon, had already been detained. In 1943, she was murdered in Auschwitz. She left hundreds of water colours and texts, collected under the motto: ‘Leben oder Theater?’. All bear witness to a life on the run cataloguing her fears and fantasies.
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Director
Frans Weisz
Production year
1980
Country
DE, IT, GB, NL
Original title
Charlotte
Length
94 min.
Language
German
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
Eye Classics
Eye’s collection includes a wealth of classics. With the Eye Classics series, Eye brings film history even closer. Every week, we screen at least three classics from the collection under one recognisable name: Eye Classics.
In Memoriam Frans Weisz
Frans Weisz (1938–2025), one of the great directors of Dutch cinema, passed away on 7 December at the age of 87 in his hometown of Amsterdam. Weisz’s career spans more than fifty years, ranging from a debut feature inspired by the Nouvelle Vague to major audience films, TV series, commercials, and theatre productions.
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