My name is Annemarie Schwarzenbach

France, 2015
Length
85 minutes
Director
Véronique Aubouy
Cast

    Content

    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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    Credits

    Production company
    PARAISO PRODUCTION
    Original title
    Je suis Aneemarie Schwarzenbach