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Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish painter. She died in a concentration camp at age 26. His life had already inspired, among other things, an opera, two feature films and plays. All that was missing was an animated film. “Charlotte” will be in theaters on Wednesday November 9, with the voices of Marion Cotillard and Romain Duris.
It is a route as luminous as tragic. Born in Berlin (Germany) in 1917, Charlotte Salomon was the only child of a wealthy couple. In 1936, anti-Semitic laws made rage. However, the 19-year-old young woman is admitted to the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts. In 1939, to flee Nazi persecution, Charlotte joined her grandparents, refugees on the French Rivierain the villa of a wealthy American.
It is under the southern sun that Charlotte will meet her husband. She will paint in the urgency of the war an exceptional painting. “To respond to the Nazi threat and also to a more intimate threat, (…) in 1200 paintings, she will stage the theater of her life”describes Frédéric Martin, publisher of the complete work of Charlotte Salomon. Scene after scene, the poignant fate of Charlotte explodes in hot color until the tragic outcome which ends in the Auschwitz camp where she is murdered, five months pregnant.