Charlotte is a 1981 West German-Dutch film directed by Frans Weisz. It is a biography about German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, who died in the Holocaust.[1][2]

Charlotte
Directed byFrans Weisz
Written byJudith Herzberg, Frans Weisz
Release date
  • 26 February 1981 (1981-02-26)
Running time
96 minutes
CountriesNetherlands
West Germany
LanguagesGerman, Dutch

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Salomon's biographer Mary Lowenthal Felstiner calls the film "poignant", though she thought Derek Jacobi's performance as Daberlohn "overblown".[3]

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  1. ^ Brown, Hannah (7 December 2010). "Triple Dutch". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Filmvorführung | Charlotte | Filmische Biografie von Regisseur Frans Weisz, 1980" (in German). Lenbachhaus. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
  3. ^ Felstiner, Mary Lowenthal (1994). To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era. New York: HarperCollins. p. 229. ISBN 0-06-017105-7.

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