Der letzte Mentsch

Story

Synopsis

As a 15-year-old, Marcus survived several concentration camps, changed his name after liberation, and settled in Germany. From then on, he suppressed his past until it caught up with him again, now over 80 years old. Since he wants to be buried according to Jewish tradition, he needs proof of his identity—the tattooed prisoner number is not enough for the bureaucratic rabbis. So the young German-Turkish woman Gül drives him to his Hungarian village of birth, where no one knows him anymore. Only a blind woman seems to have been expecting him.

Director

Pierre-Henry Salfati

Writers

Almut Getto, Pierre-Henry Salfati

Language

German

Country

Switzerland, Germany, France

Release date

8 May 2014

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Mario Adorf

  Marcus Schwarz / Menachem Teitelbaum

• 

  Katharina Derr

  Gül

• 

  Hannelore Elsner

  Ethel

• 

  Herbert Leiser

  Mikos

• Margot Gödrös

  Madame Kodaye

• Markus Klauk

  Rabbi

• Thomas Binder

  Bandenmitglied