Directed by:
Joseph Vilsmaier

Starring:
Michael Degen
Franziska Petri
Suzanne von Borsody
Alexandra Maria Lara

Leo & Claire

Drama
103 minutes, German with English Subtitles

Screenings
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 7:00 PM | Harkins Camelview 5
Guest Speaker: Dr. Michael Rubinoff

LEO AND CLAIRE is a love story of a husband and wife who take different paths to their lives ends.  The film is based on a true story of Leo Katzenberger, and his wife Claire, prosperous German Jews who owned an apartment building and a shoe factory.  In 1933, Irene, a beautiful young women, alone and confused, moves into Leo's apartment building. An exhibitionist, Irene reveals her nude, voluptuous body before her apartment windows in an enticing display. Many of the neighbors engage in erotic fantasies about Irene.  Leo, acting improvidently, and underestimating the Nazi threat, befriends Irene and is subsequently wrongly accused by the Gestapo of having an affair with her in violation of the recently passed Nuremberg Laws forbidding sexual relations between Jews and Aryans.  Leo and Claire remain bound to each other even as they take separate journeys to their graves.

Please note the films shown at the GPJFF are not rated. Parental discretion advised.