Aimee & Jaguar

Aimee & Jaguar
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 30, 2001
  • Originally Released: 2000
  • Label: Zeitgeist Films

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 5,042
Startlingly poignant, Aimée and Jaguar is a story about dreams. If you have ever dreamed, don't miss it. Full Review
Urban Cinefile
Apr 10, 2010
Rating: 2/5 -- There is surprisingly little emotional amplitude. Full Review
New York Times
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 4/5 -- Powerful and touching. Good touching.
ColeSmithey.com
Aug 14, 2007
Rating: 3/4 -- Schrader plays Felice with a kind of doomed and reckless bravery. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
...Fascinating....The film has some wonderful things in it....AIMEE & JAGUAR presses all the right keys...
Sight and Sound
Apr 1, 2001
Rating: 3/5 -- Theatre director Max Färberböck could hardly have picked a more intense and heartbreaking story for his cinema debut. Full Review
RTÉ (Ireland)
Jan 23, 2003
...Subtly played by the two leads, it's a persuasive piece of history...
Total Film
May 1, 2001

Product Description:

In 1943, as World War II's Battle of Berlin rages, with air raids forcing families into their cellars for shelter and bombs exploding all over the city, Felice Schragenheim (Juliane Köhler) and Lilly Wust (Maria Schrader), fall in love. Director Max Färberböck's AIMEE & JAGUAR tells the true story of this passionate, forbidden love affair, adapted from the 1998 book of the same title by Erica Fischer.

Felice, a dark and beautiful Jewish woman who is constantly in danger of being apprehended by the Gestapo, works for a Nazi newspaper under a false name, feeding what she learns to underground resistance leaders. Lilly, a flowery blond housewife living in bourgeoise comfort, raises 4 little boys, passing the time until her Nazi husband, Gunther, returns from the war. When the two meet, and Felice makes advances, Lilly responds, falling into total submission under Felice's spell. They nickname each other Aimee (Lilly) and Jaguar (Felice), spending every night dancing to popular 40s jazz music with Felice's eccentric lesbian friends, and every day raising the four boys who treat Felice like a second mother. It is not until the end of their affair, when Lilly--and soon thereafter, the authorities--learns that Felice is a Jew, and tragedy befalls the couple.

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  • Sales Rank: 44,084
  • UPC: 795975100939
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