Today, Europe’s fastest-growing Jewish population is in Berlin. What happened since the end of World War Two? As Germans & Jews reveals, the country found a renewed identity through a level of national self-scrutiny and meditation that is nearly unprecedented. Forcing itself to go through this painful but necessary change, Germany went from ignoring the Holocaust to facing it head-on. "Part psychology seminar and sociology course" (The New York Times), this engrossing, honest and ultimately optimistic doc captures the hopes and fears of German residents on both sides of the story. Presented like a conversation by director Janina Quint, a non-Jewish German, and executive producer Tal Recanati, an American Jew, the audience can see firsthand how addressing a shared pain from the past is better than hiding it away. Which leaves us to consider: perhaps the lesson of Germans & Jews is one that could be exported.
In English and German, with English subtitles.
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