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The Giraffe

1998, Movie, NR, 107 mins

GIRAFFE, THE | DIE GIRAFFE | MESCHUGGE
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An ambitious thriller that's undermined by some stiff performances but tackles provocative issues of identity and responsibility. Businessman David Fish (director/co-screenwriter Dani Levy) is a New Yorker chafing at his Orthodox Jewish family's proscriptive beliefs. Lena Katz (co-scripter Maria Schrader) also lives in New York; she's forced to examine her Jewish heritage when her family's factory in Germany is torched by neo-Nazis. Coincidence appears to bring David and Len... read more leave a comment
Year: 1998
Rated NR

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Cast
Maria Schrader: Lena Katz
Dani Levy: David Fish
David Strathairn: Charles Kaminski
Nicole Heesters: Lena's Mother
Jeffrey Wright: Win
Lukas Ammann: Eliah Goldberg

 

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