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Sep 30, 1999 · Viehjud Levi: Directed by Didi Danquart. With Bruno Cathomas, Wolf Bachofner, Georg Blumreiter, Peer Martiny. Levi is a Jewish man living alone in a small village in Germany in the mid-1930's. He does a good business buying and selling, he courts the farmer's daughter, and he chats with his pet rabbit during his long road trips.
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- Drama
- Didi Danquart
- 1999-09-30
San Jose Jewish Film Festival - 2000. For information about this film, including how to get a copy of it, please click the DVD, Instant Video, IMDB or website link above. (This site is not affiliated with the film.) The year is 1935, a valley in the Black Forest. Levi the cattle dealer arrives in the valley just like every year to do business.
13. Danquart described Viehjud Levi as "above all a romance" (quoted in SeeBlen). A reviewer complained: "As a tender love story dressed in historical garb, Viehjud Levi is a successful film. But it has little to tell us on the political or historical level" (Silvia Hal-lensleben, "Die Bauern in den Bergen," Tagesspiegel 30 Sep. 1999).
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Viehjud Levi. Directed by Didi Danquart. Germany-Switzerland-Austria | 95 minutes | 1999. German with English subtitles
Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline Ebner). But Nazi propaganda has gripped the small community and poisoned it forever.
