Jew Boy Levi
by Didi Danquart
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Actor: Bruno Cathomas, Caroline Ebner, Georg Blumreiter, Peer Martiny, Wolf BachofnerDirector: Didi Danquart
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: German (Original Language), Analog; English (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 90 minutes
Release Date: 2003-04-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Vanguard Cinema
Studio: Vanguard Cinema
VHS Movie Reviews of Jew Boy Levi
Movie Review: Moving
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a well-acted, poignant film, though I'm not convinced that it is an authentic portrayal. It seems to say that the vulnerable country folk are manipulated by the intrusive Nazi menace, destroying the formerly pleasant relations they had with the Jew, Levi. But Germany, like most of Europe has a savage and repetitive history of anti-semitism that preceded the Nazis by hundreds of years. Ostracism and violence against Jews were not unusual, they were only more overt at some times than others. So, would Levi have felt so apparently confident in his dealings with the villagers? The director perhaps assumes that viewers will have a familiarity with European anti-semitism that most do not.Movie Review: Very dramatic .
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fantastic film and fantastic writing. Everything is both simple and complicated at the same time. The story may seem straightforward, but the emotions take you on a wild roller-coaster ride. Everything makes sense at the end, but it's not a very pretty picture. This film shows how there are so many little, and big ways we indulge in hatred and violence. It's also tastefully shot and lays off heavily editing or techniques to drive home the point - something Hollywood could learn a lot from.Like No Man's Land, Focus, Indochine, and Kippur; we get a real glimpse of the way that war creeps up on us and brings out the worst in people. Unlike the rash of sentimental crappy Hollywood soldier stories this one comes closer to what I would think the truth really is - that the lovely bonding that happens between soldiers is the ugly fa?ade of the fact that civilians caught in war don't need it in order to bond together; they would bond together just fine without it.
Movie Review: propaganda??
Summary: 3 Stars
This DVD, originally titled "Vieh-Jud Levi" in German, is good, but not great. The story is captivating, especially the romance that develops between Levi and a young farm girl. I was very disappointed in the stereotypical portrayal of Levi. In this respect the movie was more a propaganda film than a story about a Jewish man in the German countryside at the time of World War II.
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