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For Zucker! (Alles auf Zucker!) |
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The conniving wheeler-dealer Jaeckie Zucker is up to
his neck in trouble -- his wife wants a divorce; the
court bailiff is threatening him with jail. The only
hope left for the former GDR sports reporter is his
mother's inheritance. In her will, she stipulated that
Jaeckie must reconcile his differences with his
brother Samuel, an orthodox Jew. As Samuel and his
entire clan move into Jaeckie's chaotic household,
the clash of civilizations is inevitable but the two
stubborn brothers have no choice. They have to get
along.
尋 找 甜 美
的 生 活 吧!一
部 非 傳 統 的
喜 劇
Jaeckie Zucker 是 一 位
放 縱 的 車 輪
經 銷 商 , 他
現 正 面 臨 着
滿 腦 子 的 煩
惱--他 的 妻 子
想 要 離 婚;法
院 的 法 警 威
脅 他 要 進 監
獄 。 他 唯 一
的 希 望 是 動
身 前 往 前 東
德 去 繼 承 他
的 母 親 的 財
產 , 在 遺 囑
中 , 她 規 定
Jaeckie 必 須 調 解
他 與 他 的 兄
弟 Samuel 的 意 見
分 歧 。 Samuel 是
一 位 正 統 的
猶 太 教 徒 ,
而 他 是 非 正
統 的 。 由 於
Samuel 與 及 他 的
整 個 家 庭 快
將 搬 進 Jaeckie 的
混 亂 家 庭 中
, 故 兩 者 的
文 化 衝 擊 是
不 可 避 免 的
, 但 這 兩 個
頑 固 而 倔 強
的 兄 弟 均 沒
有 得 選 擇 ,
他 們 必 須 和
諧 共 處 。
This film will be shown with English and Chinese
subtitles.
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| The Great Communist Bank Robbery |
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In 1959 there was robbery at the Romanian National
Bank in Bucharest. This was a peculiar occurrence since
the local currency (the lei) could only be spent inside
Romania, and bank robberies, along with most other kinds
of crimes, were presumed not to happen in the socialist
utopia. The Romanian police scoured the country and
ultimately arrested six people -- all intellectuals,
medium-ranking nomenklatura Party members and Jewish
-- who they declared to be guilty. After confessing,
the six agreed to re-enact their crime. An hour-long
film was made in which they duly played themselves.
There is some evidence that they thought by so doing
they would be spared a death sentence but after trial,
also filmed, they were shot. Alexandru Solomon's film
is both a bizarre recreation of a crime of which the
motive is still difficult to fathom and an astonishing
evocation of a lost world of Romanian Stalinism.
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The
6th Annual Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival - November
12 - 27. Tickets go on sale starting November
1st.
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Walk
On Water (LaLechet Al HaMayim) |
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Eyal, a hitman for Mossad, is given the mission to
track down a very old ex-Nazi officer who might be
still alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide Eyal
befriends the man's grandson Axel, in Israel to visit
his sister. Axel wants to convince her to come back
to Germany for their father's birthday party. Eyal and
Axel set out on an extended tour of the country
during which Axel's frank and open attitude
challenges Eyal's rigid, clichéd values. To finish his
mission Eyal has to go to Germany. He meets Axel
once more and succeeds in being invited to the
family party where secrets will be revealed.
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