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19 de ene. de 2006 · Just an Ordinary Jew: Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Ben Becker, Siegfried Kernen, Samuel Finzi. Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.
Pacing in his apartment during a sleepless night, Goldfarb wrestles with his deep ambivalence about appearing as “Exhibit A” in a German classroom: a real, live Jew in the well-meaning, politically correct country that nearly wiped out his entire people.
When asked to speak in front of a school class about his Jewish identity, Emanuel Goldfarb, born 1945, questions the usefulness of this task. His letter of decline develops into taking stock of the German-Jewish relationship and his own past. A monologue
Just an Ordinary Jew, is the Jewish journalist, Emanuel Goldfarb, who is invited to speak at a school about his daily life as a “Jewish fellow citizen”.
Ben Becker’s Goldfarb, arguing with himself into a microcassette recorder, is angry, caustic, wounded and humane — a brilliant portrait of a man who wants, ostensibly, to be nothing more than “just an ordinary Jew” but who cannot escape the extraordinary circumstances of history.
It recounts Adolf Hitler 's last days, and sparked an extensive debate in Germany over the portrayal of Nazi leaders. The film was a critical and commercial success, winning numerous awards and a nomination for the Academy Award for the best foreign film.
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