Meschugge (film)

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Movie
Original title Meshugge
Country of production Germany , Switzerland , USA
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
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Director Dani Levy
script Dani Levy,
Maria Schrader
production Stefan Arndt
music Niki Reiser
camera Carl-Friedrich Koschnick
cut Ueli Christen ,
Sabine Hoffmann ,
Dani Levy
occupation

Meschugge is a German-Swiss-American film directed by Dani Levy from 1998.

action

The Jew Lena Katz has lived in the USA for a long time. She is being brought back to Germany because anti-Semites have set fire to her grandfather Eliah Goldberg's chocolate factory. Ruth Fish, who reads a newspaper report about it, immediately instructs her son David to make further investigations - she believes that she recognized her father, who was believed to be dead, in the chocolate factory Goldberg.

Shortly after Lena is back in America, her mother unexpectedly comes to visit. In the hotel she meets Mrs. Fish. Lena, who later comes to the hotel to visit her mother, finds Ruth Fish, apparently dead, at the door. She takes her to a hospital where she meets David. He is convinced that this is not an ordinary death and turns on the lawyer Charles Kaminski, who immediately investigates and begins to dig deep into the past of the two women.

Reviews

“Levy succeeds in subordinating his extremely personal narrative style, shaped by RobbyKallePaul or Silent Night, and especially his cinematic character, to a more global context and thus makes it easier for the audience to identify. The crew (again with composer Niki Reiser and a haunting score), apparently a kind of creative family themselves after a series of successful projects, created “Meschugge”, a film that, because of its technical care and perhaps precisely because it has a personal charisma lives, does not have to shy away from international comparison. There it will also be able to book another plus point: It is shot in English. For Germany this in turn means that a dubbed version is necessary for distribution policy. And it is - with all due respect - poor, poor. " (Oliver Baumgarten, editor )

"This movie's breathless incoherence is matched only by its wild implausibility. [...] Ms. Schrader and Mr. Levy seem to labor under the assumption that making a film about an important, politically charged subject is the same as making an important, politically charged film. They also seem to think a movie that features people chasing one another through airports and train stations, exchanging desperate looks and shouting a lot deserves to be called a psychological thriller. ” (German:“ The film's enormous incoherence only fits in with its incredibility . […] Schrader and Levy seem to have made the film believing that an important, politically charged subject was already an important, politically charged film, and they also seem to believe a film in which people walk each other through airports and train stations chasing, looking at it desperately and yelling around a lot, would deserve the name of a psychological thriller. ”) ( AO Scott , The New York Times )

background

The plot of the film has echoes of the novel and Jimmy went to the rainbow by Johannes Mario Simmel . The film was shot in Berlin , Cologne and New York City .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Baumgarten: No grace of late birth . In: Section 13.
  2. ^ AO Scott : Grandpa's Chocolate Burns Inside a German Potboiler . In: The New York Times 13.