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Jan 19, 2006 · 7.1 /10. 276. YOUR RATING. Rate. Drama. 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. Director. Oliver Hirschbiegel. Writer. Charles Lewinsky. Stars. Ben Becker. Siegfried Kernen. Samuel Finzi. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist.
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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”. Thinking that the whole thing is an idiotic idea, as more than enough has already been said on this subject.
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.
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.
Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist, is asked by the Director of a Jewish community in Germany, to respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.
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