Event

Bye Bye Germany

Bye Bye Germany
North American Premiere!
Drama, comedy/Germany/Luxembourg/Belgium/2017/101 minutes
Directed by Sam Garbarski
Starring Moritz Bleibtreu, Mark Ivanir and Antje Traue
German with English subtitles

The story picks up where most German period pieces end - after WWII. With the Nazi regime effectively dismantled, a group of Jewish friends want to find a way to America and away from the land that for the last several years had them face to face with death. David, (Moritz Bleibtreu Run Lola Run, Munich) is a Holocaust survivor who starts up a linen business with partner Max (Mark Ivanir, Homeland, Human Resources Manager) and other former concentration camp inmates, exploiting the guilt of their German customers to raise money to emigrate.

But U.S. special agent Sara Simon (Antje Traue, Woman in Gold) who is investigating his case, is asking uncomfortable questions about David's wartime past, even suggesting he may have been a Nazi collaborator.

Introduction by Deputy Consul General, Katherin Steinbrenner of the German Consulate
Q&A with actor Mark Ivanir
Sponsored by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany