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Breakfast
(1981)
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3m and an assortment of minor and non-speaking parts) |
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| SYNOPSIS |
| MARK
BELL, an unconventional Jewish businessman, finds himself reading
Primo Levi while on a business trip in Munich.
Everyone he meets is kind. The Levi text, full of
Nazi brutality, contrasts with modern Germany. The experience is
confusing, tense and, finally, profoundly distressing.
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| EXCERPT |
| "And
that's what Munich was like. Everything happened in it. And you know
who I met one day? As I was coming out from the theatre buying my
tickets, you know who I bumped into? Guess. Guess…Bertolt Brecht!
Yes! And after we said sorry for bumping into each other, I said `You're
Bertolt Brecht, aren't you?' And he said `Sometimes! Sometimes I'm
Bertolt Brecht.' So I asked him `Are you Bertolt Brecht today?' And
he said `It depends who I meet!' So I said `Herr Brecht, my name is
Anton Mendelssohn, I run a little secondhand bookshop on the Kaiserstrasse,
I'm a great admirer of your work.' And he smiled at me and he said
`then today I'm Bertolt Brecht!'" |
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