An ordinary Jew (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | An ordinary Jew |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Oliver Hirschbiegel |
| script | Charles Lewinsky |
| production |
Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt , Claudia Schröder |
| music | Jewels |
| camera | Carl-Friedrich Koschnick |
| cut | Hans Funck |
| occupation | |
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A very ordinary Jew is a German film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from 2005. It is based on the chamber play of the same name by Charles Lewinsky , who also wrote the screenplay for the film.
action
The Hamburg journalist Emanuel Goldfarb, the only son of Holocaust survivors, is invited to his class by a teacher through the religious community so that he can answer the students' questions about Judaism .
With the formulation of the rejection, in which Goldfarb reveals his identity and his life as a Jew and German in Germany, a monologue emerges which Goldfarb speaks into a dictaphone - angry about such cautious formulations as "Member of your religious community" or "Jewish fellow citizen" instead "Jew".
In his monologue, Goldfarb works his way through the "Jewish topics" for over 90 minutes in order to make his rejection plausible for the teacher - at the end of the story, however, the viewer experiences him in the classroom without his actual dialogue with the students becoming part of the plot is.
reception
The film received very different reviews from critics; while Alexia Weiss wrote for the portal juedische.at that the topic of Jewish identity formation was handled brilliantly and without any length , and elsewhere it was praised that a person with whom one can and should confidently identify with is presented there are also clear reviews, for example by Henryk M. Broder , who spoke of a parforcer ride of the platitudes and also already certified the book text as having "weaknesses".
Web links
- An ordinary Jew in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexia Weiss, Being a very ordinary Jew In: NU 3/2005 p. 30f PDF ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sven Oelsner in medienrauschen.de ( memento of the original from July 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Henryk M. Broder: The Eternal Good
