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Christiane Susanne Kubrick (
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Harlan; born 10 May 1932) is a German actress and painter. She was born into a theatrical family (her uncle was the film director
Veit Harlan Veit Harlan (22 September 1899 – 13 April 1964) was a German film director and actor. Harlan reached the high point of his career as a director in the Nazi era; most notably his antisemitic film '' Jud Süß'' (1940) makes him controversial. W ...
), and was the wife of filmmaker
Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American filmmaker and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick filmography, his films were nearly all adaptations of novels or sho ...
from 1958 until his death in 1999.


Life and career

Christiane Susanne Harlan was born in
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, in 1932, the daughter of two opera singers, Ingeborg (''née'' de Freitas) and Fritz Moritz Harlan. She was trained as an actress, but became better known as a painter. Success in her early career as an actress led to her being cast in the film ''
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'' by
Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American filmmaker and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick filmography, his films were nearly all adaptations of novels or sho ...
, being credited as Susanne Christian.Christiane Kubricκ
in the
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" 'I flinch at those stories about crazy Stanley' "
by Sean O'Hagan, ''
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'', 17 April 2005
In the final scene of ''
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'', the young woman she plays is forced to sing to a tavern full of rowdy and disillusioned French soldiers. Her rendition in German of the German folk song ''Ein treuer Husar'' ('' The Faithful Hussar'') slowly wins the hearts of the crowd of men, who stop their mocking and carousing, and, one by one, begin to hum and sing along, many of them in tears. She and Kubrick married in 1958, shortly after filming was completed. Their marriage lasted until Kubrick's death in 1999; they had two daughters, Anya and Vivian. Christiane also has a daughter, Katharina, the only child of her first marriage to that ended in 1957. Anya died in 2009 from cancer, aged 50. The Kubrick family moved to
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in the early 1960s, where Christiane continued to paint and exhibit. She became a highly accomplished and avidly collected
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with a passion for floral settings and still life paintings. Her works were featured in two Stanley Kubrick films. In ''
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'' (1971), a large floral oil painting adorns the living room of "Home", the abode of two of the characters, a reclusive writer, Frank Alexander ( Patrick Magee), and his wife (
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), being visible during the "''
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''" scene. Nearly thirty years later, in ''
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'' (1999), Christiane's vivid paintings adorn nearly every wall of the characters Dr. and Mrs. Harford's (
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) Manhattan apartment and a few paintings by her daughter, Katharina, also are shown. More of Christiane's paintings are featured in the billiard room and the upstairs bathroom of the Manhattan mansion of the character Ziegler (Sydney Pollack). In March 2001, Christiane traveled to the
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in Rome to screen a newly remastered version of her late husband's film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968). The film was shown at the Vatican on the evening of Thursday 1 March under the aegis of the
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. In 1996, that council listed the Kubrick film among the most important films of the twentieth century. The screening at the Vatican in 2001 was also attended by Archbishop John Foley, who then was the president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. Christiane's brother,
Jan Harlan Jan Harlan (born 5 May 1937) is a German-American executive producer who worked with the director Stanley Kubrick, his brother-in-law, on Kubrick's five films. Life Jan Harlan was born in Karlsruhe in 1937, the son of two opera singers, Frit ...
, was the executive producer for all of
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's films from ''
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'' (1975) onward. Following Kubrick's death in 1999, he became the director of the documentary '' Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures'', in which Christiane took full part, appearing for the interview with her paintings. Although the project was never realized, Stanley Kubrick had considered making a film about their uncle,
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, the German filmmaker who made the antisemitic ''
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'' (1940).John Ronso
"After Stanley Kubrick"
''The Guardian'', 18 August 2010
The two siblings are very active in preservation, exhibit production, and publishing related to Stanley Kubrick's life and work, including the
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mega-book ''The Stanley Kubrick Archives'' and the touring major museum exhibit. As of 2018, Kubrick continues to live in
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, where she and her daughter, Katharina, hold regular painting courses at their home,
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, in
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.


Filmography

* '' Love Is Just a Fairytale'' (1955) * ''
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'' (1957) as German singer (credited as Susanne Christian)


References


External links

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Interview of Christiane Kubrick
in ''The Guardian'', 10 August 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kubrick, Christiane 1932 births Living people 20th-century German painters 21st-century German painters German women painters German film actresses Emigrants from West Germany to the United Kingdom German women singers Actresses from Braunschweig Stanley Kubrick