Charlotte Salomon's Lettter

CHARLOTTE SALOMON'S LETTER is a non-fiction film about the German Jewish Artist Charlotte Salomon who created her magnum opus 'Life? or Theater?' as a catharsis experience to prevent herself from suicide after finding out she was the sole survivor in her maternal family line of suicides while living in exile and under duress in the Côte d'Azur, France during WWII. Censored for more than 60 years was Salomon's 35-page painted letter, portions read on screen by the Birgit Doll (1956-2015) culled from archival material filmed for a prior film and provided by Quintus Films, BV. Montages of paintings, photographs and texts by or related to Charlotte Salomon are provided by the Jewish Historical Museum © Charlotte Salomon Foundation, are interwoven with scenes that represent Charlotte Salomon's life plight, life story (1917-1943) to her arrest and murder at Auschwitz Birkenau.

Charlotte Salomon's Lettter is a 2026 documentary movie directed by Dana Plays, starring Christine 'Kika' Frouté-Moridis, Georg Stefan Troller, Ottilie Gobel Moore. It runs 56m.