Film

Mr. Zwilling and Mrs. Zuckerman

1999 · 2h 7m · Documentary

IMDb

8.1

In the west of Ukraine, not far from the border to Romania, there is a faraway European city: Chernivtsi. It was once the centre of Jewish culture in the Bukowina, a border area characterized over centuries by a multi-cultural mixture of peoples. Here, Ukrainians, Poles, Romanians, Germans and Jews lived side by side. Volker Koepp’s film focuses on Mr. Zwilling and Mrs. Zuckermann, two of the last few Jews born in the old Chernivtsi/Czernowitz. They share a friendship but also their love for the German language. Mr. Zwilling visits 90-year-old Mrs. Zuckermann daily in the early hours of the evening. They talk about old times, about shared events, about politics and literature and the worries of everyday life.

• Volker KoeppDirector · Writer
• Barbara FrankensteinWriter
• Thomas PlenertDirector of Photography
• Angelika ArnoldEditor

Release date

June 3, 1999

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

2h 7m

Genres

Documentary