Charlotte

[Available June 3 on Apple TV+/ iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play, Vudu, and Redbox digital.] Eric Warin and Tahir Rana's poignant, factually inspired, powerful, coming-of-age, artistic, heartbreaking, bittersweet, star-studded (voiceovers by Mark Strong, Henry Czerny, and Sophie Okonedo), 92-minute, 2021 animated film based on Life? Or Theatre?: A Song-Cycle and a collection of more than 1,000 expressionist paintings in which talented German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon (voiceover by Keira Knightley), who is supported by her parents (voiceovers by Eddie Marsan and Helen McCrory), escapes from Berlin to the home of her grandparents (voiceovers by Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn) in the South of France on the eve of WWII in an effort to fulfill her dream of becoming a successful artist, marries an Austrian therapist and vocal coach (voiceover by Sam Claflin), and tragically ends up murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz on Oct. 10, 1943, at age 26.
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