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1998 film

Meschugge

Directed by	Dani Levy
Written by	Dani Levy Maria Schrader
Produced by	Stefan Arndt
Music by	Niki Reiser
Distributed by	Jugendfilm 20th Century Fox
Release date	1998 (1998)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Germany
Languages	English German

Meschugge (English title: The Giraffe) is a 1998 German thriller film directed by Dani Levy and set during World War II. The German title translates as "crazy". The English title refers to the nickname of a character who was once in charge of the Treblinka extermination camp. The film mainly uses English dialogue, though it contains German dialogue as well.

Cast

Maria Schrader as Lena Katz
Lukas Ammann as Eliah Goldberg
Lynn Cohen as Mrs. Fish
Dani Levy as David Fish
David Strathairn as Charles Kaminski
Nicole Heesters as Lena's mother

Reception

Variety gave a mixed review, calling the film "slickly shot" though criticising the plot and dialogue as "ordinary". The New York Times was much more critical, stating the English dialogue seemed like "badly translated German" and the plots "breathless incoherence matched only by its wild implausibility."

References

Guider, Elizabeth (12 November 1998). "Fox, Jugendfilm team for prod'n, distrib'n". Variety. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
Elley, Derek (October 25, 1998). "Review: "The Giraffe"". Variety. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
Scott, A.O (February 4, 2000). "The Giraffe (1998)". The New York Times. Retrieved May 22, 2013.

External links

Meschugge at IMDb

v t e Works directed by Maria Schrader
Films	Meschugge (1998, with Dani Levy) Love Life (2007) Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016) I'm Your Man (2021) She Said (2022)
Television	Unorthodox (2020)

v t e Stefan Arndt
Films produced	Deadly Maria (1993) Life Is All You Get (1997) Winter Sleepers (1997) Meschugge (1998) Run Lola Run (1998) Absolute Giganten (1999) The Princess and the Warrior (2000) Heaven (2002) Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) Agnes and His Brothers (2004) Love in Thoughts (2004) Soundless (2004) Summer in Berlin (2005) My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler (2007) The White Ribbon (2009) Three (2010) 4 Days in May (2011) Amour (2012) Cloud Atlas (2012) Little Thirteen (2012) Sources of Life (2013) The Dark Valley (2014) Alone in Berlin (2016) Frantz (2016) A Hologram for the King (2016) Junction 48 (2016) Divine (2020) Isi & Ossi (2020)
TV series produced	Babylon Berlin (2017–)
Company founded	X Filme Creative Pool

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