Set in 1946 Frankfurt, “Bye Bye Germany” follows a group of Jewish door-to-door salesmen trying to regain a sense of belonging after surviving the Holocaust.

The 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival: Das Kino

Throughout my first year of teaching in West Bend, my paychecks always misspelled my name. Forgiving others for overlooking my surname’s very German second “n” has always been easy—after all, I have more than four decades of practice—but for me that doubled consonant is an unforgettable part of my identity, a family keepsake that, in …

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