29/11/2005

After starring in 33 films, the actress Maria Schrader (Aimée & Jaguar by Max Färberböck, Rosenstrasse [+see also:
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This feature, one of the biggest current projects for the German producer X Filme, depicts the disturbing love story of Jara (Neta Garty), a successful young woman who falls in love with an old friend of her father (Rade Sherbedgia). The erotic fascination she feels allows the older man to impose all kinds of humiliations upon her, a degrading spiral which eventually leads the young academic to investigate the depths of her own soul and the secrets of her past. Despite the specific setting of Liebesleben, the story it tells is universal. After Jerusalem, the crew will move to Tel Aviv, Akkon, and North-Rhine Westphalien, where the film should finish shooting on the 20th of December.

This film was supported by the Filmstiftung NRW, the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and the FFA.

(Translated from French)