Aimee & Jaguar (1999) on Netflix
NR19992h 5mBiographyDramaRomance
Berlin, 1943. Lilly Wust raises four children while her husband is away at the front. Letters signed Jaguar lead her to Felice Schragenheim, a Jewish journalist hiding under another name.
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Plot summary
In 1943, Allied bombs fall on Berlin, and Lilly Wust runs a household of four children while her husband, Günther, serves at the front. Lonely, she takes lovers. Felice Schragenheim is Jewish, keeps an invented identity, works as a journalist at a Nazi newspaper, and moves in an underground circle. She meets Lilly through Ilse, the housekeeper, and begins sending her ardent letters signed Jaguar. Lilly takes the writer for a man. When she learns that Felice is the one courting her, she is drawn into a romance that the Germany of the time forbids, and Felice, who takes part in resistance work, must keep her origins hidden.
Cast
- Kyra Mladeckas Ilse (1997)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Lilly Wust, the real-life Berlin woman behind the film, had been presumed a Holocaust victim until American Holocaust researcher Charles Brady tracked her down before Erica Fischer's bestseller; it took over a year and a half for her to confide in him, and they stayed friends for 20 years until her death.
