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BATTLE LINES.(Go for Zucker)(Why We Fight)(Movie Review)

The New Yorker

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Jaecki Zucker (Henry Hubchen), the hero of the German comedy "Go for Zucker," loses his family when the Berlin Wall goes up, in 1961. His mother and his brother, Samuel, leave East Berlin for Frankfurt and capitalism, while fourteen-year-old Jaecki, ne Jakob Zuckermann, stays behind, drops his Jewish identity, settles in as a Communist, and eventually turns himself into a celebrity sports announcer. More than forty years go by, Communism has collapsed, and Jaecki is out of a job. He has become, in his own words, a "reunification loser"--he just gets by on his skills as a pool hustler. Widely described as the first Jewish comedy made in Germany since the Second World War, ...

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