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Charlotte Salomon: Life and the Maiden

2022 · 75 min

A quiet, sorrowful immersion in a young artist's creative outpouring, beautiful and haunting as it moves toward an unbearable end.

Directed by
Muriel Coulin, Delphine Coulin
Genres
Documentary, History
Overview
In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure, during which she combined painting, text and music: in only eighteen months, she painted more than a thousand paintings. In 1943, she was arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp.

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Directed by
Muriel Coulin, Delphine Coulin
Genres
Documentary, History
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  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
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measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • identity
  • isolation
  • death
  • memory
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Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Horror2
Humour1
Realism9
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Genres
documentary, history
Directed by
Muriel Coulin, Delphine Coulin
Runtime
75 min
Country
France
Languages
French, German

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