Isabel Seliger

In 1941, the case of the Berlin actor couple Meta and Joachim Gottschalk shocked their colleagues in the Berlin theater and film communities: He, a celebrated UFA star; she, a Jewish woman barred from working and increasingly subjected to repression—together with their eight-year-old son, they took their own lives. Shortly thereafter, director and writer Hans Schweikart began working on a novella that read like a film treatment.
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