Origin: Israel Germany | Documentary | Director: Arnon Goldfinger | 97 minutes

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The Flat

Arnon Goldfinger, documentary film, Israel/Germany, 2011, 97 min

The Flat is a 2011 feature documentary film, an Israeli-
German co-production written and directed by Arnon Goldfinger. It was
theatrically released in Israel in September 2011. It played continuously
for thirteen months and has received rave reviews. Time Out Tel Aviv chose
to place the film at the top of its recommended films for 49 weeks under
the headline: "not to be missed" and chose it as one of the 25 most
important art works from around the world for 2011. The Flat was
theatrically released in Germany in June 2012. The German version of the
film features the voice of renowned German actor Axel Milberg taking on the
role of narrator Arnon Goldfinger. The Flat was theatrically released in
USA in October 2012 and was theatrically released in Hungary in April 2015.

The film won the 2012 Best Editing in a Documentary Feature Award in the
Tribeca Film Festival World Documentary Competition. It was the opening
film at Dok Munich in 2012. The flat was one of the final three nominees
for the German Academy Film Awards 2013 ("Lola") and nominated for the
German TV Grimme Awards 2014.
Plot
The film opens as the director and members of his family are gathered in
the apartment of his mother's mother, Gerda Tuchler, a short while after
her death, to clear out the contents. His grandmother lived in the same
apartment for 70 years, ever since she and her husband, Kurt, left Nazi
Germany in the 1930s and immigrated to Palestine.
It is not long, however, before Goldfinger finds various items in his
grandmother's house that reveal an astonishing chapter in the family's
history - a chapter that had been kept under wraps for decades.
Goldfinger gradually discovers that his grandparents had a close personal
relationship with a high Nazi official, Leopold von Mildenstein, head of
the SS Office for Jewish Affairs (prior to Adolf Eichmann). Mildenstein
traveled to Palestine in the company of the Tuchlers in the 1930s and
continued a friendship with the Tuchlers after the war.

Director's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_LsncM8rUc

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSftkI9FuuQ

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