Charlotte (2021 film)

Charlotte
Film poster
Directed by
  • Éric Warin
  • Tahir Rana
Written by
Story by
Based onLife? or Theatre?
by Charlotte Salomon
Produced by
  • Julia Rosenberg
  • Jérôme Dopffer
  • Eric Goossens
  • Anton Roebbens
Starring
Edited by
  • Roderick Deogrades
  • Sam Patterson
Music byMichelino Bisceglia
Production
companies
  • January Films
  • Sons of Manual
  • Les Productions Balthazar
  • Walking the Dog
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 13 September 2021 (2021-09-13) (TIFF)
  • 22 April 2022 (2022-04-22) (Canada)
  • 9 November 2022 (2022-11-09) (France)
Running time
92 minutes
Countries
  • Canada
  • Belgium
  • France
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUS$14 million

Charlotte is a 2021 animated biographical drama film about German painter Charlotte Salomon, directed by Éric Warin and Tahir Rana, from a screen story by Erik Rutherford and a screenplay by Rutherford and David Bezmozgis, inspired by Salomon's autobiographical painting series, Life? or Theatre?. It stars the voices of Keira Knightley, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent, Sam Claflin, Henry Czerny, Eddie Marsan, Helen McCrory (in her final appearance), Sophie Okonedo and Mark Strong. Knightley, Marion Cotillard, and Xavier Dolan serve as executive producers. Cotillard also voiced Salomon in the French version of the film. Charlotte is an international co-production between Canada, Belgium and France.

The film made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 13 September 2021. It was released in Canada on 22 April 2022 and in France on 9 November 2022.