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Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a shimmering figure of bohemian society of the 1920s. A talented
writer, she was lesbian, addicted to drugs, a globetrotter, bewitchingly androgynous and – much
to her domineering Nazi-loving mother’s chagrin – also anti-fascist. Berlin photographer Marianne
Breslauer described her as the most beautiful creature she had ever encountered. Schwarzenbach
died young at the age of 34. She remained forgotten until the 1980s when her books began to be
republished and her biography reconstructed. Director Véronique Aubouy does more than merely
save Annemarie Schwarzenbach from obscurity, she brings her into the present. Sixteen young
actors of both genders slip into different roles in order to play Schwarzenbach, her friends and lovers.
Increasingly fascinated by the pull of this figure, their oscillations between genders becomes a joint
project. Something that begins as an audition in which the young actors are asked to attach their
biographies to that of the writer, ends in a dance of relationships in which the borders between reality
and dramatization are blurred.
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- Production company
- PARAISO PRODUCTION
- Original title
- Je suis Aneemarie Schwarzenbach