It's Harder for Yekkes

Summary Yuval Gidron's first documentary film follows his family's journey in 2013 to Berlin and Frankfurt, in the footsteps of his father's German ancestors. The story is told from Yuval's point of view - who tries, during the course of the film, to understand his father's motives to take the whole family on this journey, as he was born in Israel and Germany is not his native homeland. Through the lens, the visits to the cemeteries and monuments, the encounters with the German reality, and mostly witnessing the process his father goes through during this trip, makes him look differently at the whole experience. This is a film about family and memory. About Germany of today, and Germany of 80 years ago. A film with humor and emotion and in particular a film about a father, a son and the camera between them. View more details

It's Harder for Yekkes

Directed : Yuval Gidron

Written : Yuval Gidron

Stars : Unknown

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Genres : Drama History Documentary

Release date : Feb 6, 2025

Countries of origin : Germany Israel

Language : Hebrew

Summary Yuval Gidron's first documentary film follows his family's journey in 2013 to Berlin and Frankfurt, in the footsteps of his father's German ancestors. The story is told from Yuval's point of view - who tries, during the course of the film, to understand his father's motives to take the whole family on this journey, as he was born in Israel and Germany is not his native homeland. Through the lens, the visits to the cemeteries and monuments, the encounters with the German reality, and mostly witnessing the process his father goes through during this trip, makes him look differently at the whole experience. This is a film about family and memory. About Germany of today, and Germany of 80 years ago. A film with humor and emotion and in particular a film about a father, a son and the camera between them. View more details

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Genres : Drama History Documentary

Release date : Feb 6, 2025

Countries of origin : Germany Israel

Language : Hebrew

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Rechts und Radikal - Warum gerade im Osten?

Rechts und Radikal - Warum gerade im Osten?

Today this period of time is called "Basballschlägerjahre". The early 1990s in Eastern Germany were marked by right-wing violence and right-wing radicalism. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, leading neo-Nazis from West Germany came to the sinking GDR. While they were only able to gather a few supporters in the old FRG because democratic civil society strongly opposed it, in Eastern Germany they met with great interest and much more fertile ground with their ideas of a brown revolution. Nowhere did reunification work as well as in neo-Nazi circles. The reasons for this lay in the concealment of a neo-Nazi scene that had already became stronger in the 1980s and which officially was not allowed to exist in the, on paper, anti-fascist GDR. Failure to come to terms with the National Socialist past as well as the complete lack of an disput of the Holocaust in schools and in society over the past 40 years were further reasons. The understanding of democracy was alien to large parts of the Eastern German population. The strengthening of the neo-Nazis after the fall of the Wall is still having an impact till today and extends well into the middle of society. Nowhere else in Germany had right-wing extremist political parties achieved such great successes in the new millennium, see the NPD in the 2000s and the AfD in the 2010s. The film authors trace the connections between the GDR past, the time of the reunification and the situation in Eastern Germany today.

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