The Giraffe (1999)

5.3/10 107 min Thriller

Overview

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

Cast

Maria Schrader

Lena Katz

Dani Levy

David Fish

David Strathairn

Charles Kaminski

Nicole Heesters

Lena's Mother

Jeffrey Wright

Win

Lukas Ammann

Eliah Goldberg

Paul Butler

Lieutenant Lynch

Lynn Cohen

David's Mother

Wichart von Roëll

Polizeichef

Marcia Jean Kurtz

Rita Teichmann

Mark Zimmerman

Bregman

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