(Zeitgeist; August 11 in recently made known York.(Zeitgeist; August 11 in recently made known York, Los Angeles; nationwide thereafter) The makers: Max Farberbock, director; Farberbock and Rona Munro writers The stars: Maria Schrader, Juliane Kohler The pitch: Based onward a true story set in World War II Germany. Lilly (Kohler) a mother of four with a Nazi soldier husband, falls in delight in with Felice (Schrader), a Jewish resistance fighter, and her life is transformed as they exchange petted names: Aimee and Jaguar. The reason we care: As bomb fall all about them, Kohler and Schrader exchange a fateful kiss that blows into an against-all-odds wartime romance. The inside scoop: Kohler actually met her real-life counterpart, Lilly Wust, who's 86 years of advanced age and still living in Berlin. "She was just as I imagined her: witty, bold direct," Kohler says. "She says what she really thinks. I think she learned that because of the life she led" COPYRIGHT 2000 Liberation Publications, Inc. |
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