The Giraffe (1999)
Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s
Director: Dani Levy
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Maria Schrader as Lena Katz |
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Dani Levy as David Fish |
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David Strathairn as Charles Kaminski |
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Nicole Heesters as Lena's Mother |
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Jeffrey Wright as Win |
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Lukas Ammann as Eliah Goldberg |
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Paul Butler as Lieutenant Lynch |
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Mario Giacalone as Detective Pucci |
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Lynn Cohen as David's Mother |
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Wichart von Roëll as Polizeichef |
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David Warren Burke as Arzt |
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Marcia Jean Kurtz as Rita Teichmann |
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Mark Zimmerman as Bregman |
| Directing | Dani Levy | Director |
| Crew | Jennifer Lamb | Stunts |
| Crew | Jodi Michelle Pynn | Stunts |
| Writing | Dani Levy | Writer |
| Crew | Roy Farfel | Stunts |
| Writing | Maria Schrader | Writer |
| Production | Stefan Arndt | Producer |
| Production | Dani Levy | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Carl-Friedrich Koschnick | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Dani Levy | Editor |
| Editing | Sabine Hoffman | Editor |
| Sound | Niki Reiser | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Teresa Mastropierro | Production Design |
| Art | Volker Schäfer | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ingrid Bendzuk | Costume Design |
| Sound | Raoul Grass | Sound |
| Sound | Hubert Bartholomae | Sound |
| Crew | Manny Siverio | Stunt Coordinator |
| Art | Tina Khayat | Art Direction |
| Production | Louis DiGiaimo | Casting |
| Production | Brett Goldstein | Casting |