Leo & Claire

Nuremberg, 1933. Leo Katzenberger, a Jewish businessman, runs a shoe business from his flat. He loves his wife Claire, as well as their daughters, and other family members. It all seems to be that nothing can ruin their life together, until blond beauty Irene Scheffler, a model, decides to open a photography studio next to him. As time goes by, Irene and Leo start to get closer, resulting in a cosy and platonic friendship. Due to his failure to be discreet in his affair, Leo is arrested, tried and then executed in a process that became known as the Katzenberger Trial. ==Cast==

Jane Sumner stated in The Dallas Morning News, "if sometimes clumsy and confusing, the cast, especially Franziska Petri, who glows like a Renoir in the nude, glues it together". In a mostly negative review of the film, Varietys Eddie Cockrell wrote, "Large cast does the best it can with the extremely uneven dramatic tone and perfunctory direction. ... Tech credits are tops, as Vilsmaier — who operates his own camera — clearly knows how to capture pretty pictures. ... The knowledge of what to do with such images, however, continues to elude him." In a 2010 review, film critic said, "Leo and Claire still achieves the goal of its makers—to be a film that keeps the memory of injustice alive". reviewed the film in the German film magazine in April 2002. The film was reviewed in the periodical Films of the Federal Republic of Germany (). ==References==