| “Jewish comedy,
in Levy’s version, is now part of the human comedy…
Watching the antic inventions of “Go for Zucker,”
I was moved by the thought that Jews have achieved a kind
of Germanness again, and even more moved by the thought
that Germans have achieved a kind of Jewishness again.”
- The New Yorker From the producers of RUN
LOLA RUN and GOODBYE LENIN! comes the German box office
smash, GO FOR ZUCKER, a film about a comically dysfunctional
Jewish family. Mixing slapstick humor with a jaundiced
eye for sharply drawn social satire, not to mention a
disarming dose of political incorrectness, GO FOR ZUCKER
stars Henry Hübchen and Udo Samel as the two estranged
brothers -- one a hard-living former East German celebrity
sportscaster (Hübchen) now very much down-on-his
luck, and the other (Samel), his quasi-Orthodox brother
from the West. The two are awkwardly reunited when they
learn that in order to share their mother's inheritance
they will need to reconcile before burying her according
to Jewish custom in her native East Germany.
Said to be the first German-Jewish comedy made in Germany
since World War II, Dani Levy's controversial and highly
entertaining contemporary farce was one of the most talked-about
films in Europe this year and the winner in July of Germany's
top film prize. In March The New York Times asserted
that GO FOR ZUCKER in depicting German Jews with take-off-the-gloves
candor and a comedy style absent from the culture since
the Holocaust, was proving to be "an unconventional
form of therapy for the strained relations between Jews
and gentiles in Germany." The president of the Central
Committee of Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel, even encouraged
all Germans to see the film, saying "it helps bring
Jews and non-Jews back on track to normality."
• WINNER of 6 ‘German
Oscars’!
• WINNER! Ernst Lubitsch Award
for Best German Comedy
• NOMINATED for 2 European Film
Awards: Best Actor (Henry Huebchen) and Best Screenplay
(Dani Levy & Holger Franke)
• Opening Night Film: 2005 San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival
• Opening Night Film: MOMA's
Kino 2005
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