Aimee and Jaguar : A Love Greater than Death
Erica Fischer published her novel Aimée and Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 in 1994. In 2001, Max Färberböck's movie, Aimée and Jaguar: A Love Greater than Death was released. A true love story between two women during the World War II in Nazi Germany : Lilly is German and Felice is Jewish. The story of Aimée and Jaguar can be read on multiple levels. Indeed, it comes to us already in two incarnations : the clash between their genes and heritage and their love for each other. Felice knows she can’t tell Lilly she’s a Jew, so there’s comes the drama, because Lilly didn’t know what love was and the nationalism in Germany of that period made women just recipients for growing the higher race, character, freedom or education lacked. Women couldn’t have nor find jobs and Felice had to hide her Jewish heritage while helping the resistance. She had a change to go to America to her uncle, but for Lilly she chose not too. Their devotion to each other during such harsh time is admirable...