Love Story
Catrine Clay, director.
United Kingdom, 1997, video, 60 min.

The basis for the feature film Aimeé & Jaguar, this documentary about forbidden lesbian love in Nazi Germany is based on the true relationship between model Aryan Hausfrau Lilly Wurst and Felice Schrader, a Jewish woman working for the resistance in Berlin at the start of 1942. Their unusual love story is followed through recollections, documents and archival footage in this beautifully made documentary.

Now 82, Lilly shares her remaining photos and love letters to recall the great love of her life. As survivors from the undergound recollect acts of everyday courage, Love Story powerfully depicts ordinary people's resistance to injustice. Skillful, haunting and elegiac, Love Story is a potent meditation on the healing and transformative power of love and compassion in the face of adversity.

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