![]() ![]() ![]() Wust a happy hausfrau) and the powerful prejudices against same-sex unions then in force. The fascination of such a story is understandable - how powerful their feelings for each other must have been to overcome the gulf that separated deadly enemies at the height of wartime, much less to overcome class differences "Aimée and Jaguar" - the title comes from the nicknames the lovers give each other - is based on a true story as recounted in a 1994 book by Erica Fischer. Pposites attract, according to conventional wisdom and movie mythology, though platitudes are inadequate to explain why Felice Schragenheim (Maria Schrader),Ī Jew living undercover in Nazi Berlin, would fall in love with Lilly Wust (Juliane Köhler), an Aryan poster girl married to a German officer and the mother of four strapping blond boys. ![]() Juliane Kohler, left, and Maria Schrader in "Aimee and Jaguar." FILM REVIEW 'Aimee and Jaguar': In Love in Wartime Berlin, and Defying Understanding By DAVE KEHR ![]()
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