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| Just an Ordinary Jew |
A tour-de-force from Oliver Hirschbiegel, director of the Berlin Bunker box-office smash,
Downfall.
Based on a book by Swiss author Charles Lewinsky, this mesmerising screen drama addresses the thorny issue of what it means to be Jewish in contemporary Germany.
A German-Jewish journalist, receives a terribly polite letter asking him to speak at a school about his daily life as a "Jewish fellow citizen" to a group of German schoolchildren. Perishing the thought, Goldfarb writes to the teacher, refusing the invitation. But, to his own surprise, his letter develops into a monumental settling of accounts in which he starkly confronts Germany's dark past and his German-Jewish identity in no uncertain terms.
Back again by popular demand, this brilliant film is not to be missed.
