The Giraffe

Story

Synopsis

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

Writers

Dani Levy, Maria Schrader

Language

English

Country

Switzerland, Germany, United States of America

Release date

11 March 1999

Ensemble

Cast

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  Maria Schrader

  Lena Katz

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  Dani Levy

  David Fish

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  David Strathairn

  Charles Kaminski

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  Nicole Heesters

  Lena's Mother

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  Jeffrey Wright

  Win

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  Lukas Ammann

  Eliah Goldberg

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  Wichart von Roëll

  Polizeichef

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  Paul Butler

  Lieutenant Lynch

• David Warren Burke

  Arzt

• Mario Giacalone

  Detective Pucci

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  Marcia Jean Kurtz

  Rita Teichmann

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  Mark Zimmerman

  Bregman