Meschugge

Meschugge (English title: The Giraffe) is a 1998 German thriller film directed by Dani Levy and set during World War II. The German title translates as "crazy". The English title refers to the nickname of a character who was once in charge of the Treblinka extermination camp. The film mainly uses English dialogue, though it contains German dialogue as well.

Meschugge
Directed by	Dani Levy
Written by	Dani Levy Maria Schrader
Produced by	Stefan Arndt
Music by	Niki Reiser
Distributed by	Jugendfilm 20th Century Fox[1]
Release date	1998 (1998)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Germany
Languages	English German

Cast

• Maria Schrader as Lena Katz
• Lukas Ammann as Eliah Goldberg
• Lynn Cohen as Mrs. Fish
• Dani Levy as David Fish
• David Strathairn as Charles Kaminski
• Nicole Heesters as Lena's mother

Reception

Variety gave a mixed review, calling the film "slickly shot" though criticising the plot and dialogue as "ordinary".^[2] The New York Times was much more critical, stating the English dialogue seemed like "badly translated German" and the plots "breathless incoherence [was] matched only by its wild implausibility."^[3]