Dani Levy, Go for Zucker

Born in Switzerland during WWII after his mother had fled the Nazis in
1939, Dani Levy returned to Germany in the 1980s and began making small, independent
films that were notable for their strong social content. Now comes his
wacky, Jewish comedy about two brothers raised on opposite sides of the
Iron Curtain, one a rabbi and the other an agnostic con artist desperate
to pay off a debt. The farcical Go
for Zucker, which finds the warring brothers forced to become like
family - anyone see a parallel here? - became a
major European box-office hit. That means Levy has gone from a
low-profile filmmaker of modest potential to a hitmaker and a cultural
phenomenon: Go for Zucker is the first comedy that addresses Jewish
stereotypes to become a hit in Germany since WWII (36.5 minutes).

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