AIMEE ET JAGUAR

Year: 1999
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Maria Schrader, Juliane Kohler, Johanna Wokalek, Heike Makatsch, Elisabeth Degen, Detlev Buck, Kyra Mladeck, Sarah Camp, Klaus Manchen, Margit Bendokat, Jochen Stern, Peter Weck, Lia Dultzkaya, Dani Levy, Inge Keller, H C Blumenberg, Rudiger Hacker, Rosel Zech,
Director: Max Farberbock
Country: Germany
Language: German (English subtitles)
USA: 127 mins
UK: 126 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains moderate sex and nudity
USA Release Date: 11 August 2000 (Limited Release - Los Angeles and New York)
UK Release Date: 6 July 2001

Synopsis

Set in Berlin during World War II AIMEE ET JAGUAR is about Felice Schragenheim/Jaguar (Maria Schrader), who is a Jewish lesbian working undercover at a Nazi newspaper passing information onto the Jewish underground. She meets and falls in love with Lilly Wust /Aimee (Juliane Kohler) a bourgeois, Nazi-supporting hausfrau. The intensity of their love affair is matched by the ever present danger of exposure of Felice's as a spy.