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	First Run Features: In Theaters
		Dani Levy was born in Basel in 1957, and has lived in Berlin since 1980.
		In 1993, Levy won the Hypobank Director's Prize at the Munich Film Festival with his WDR-commissioned short film OHNE MICH (1993), which launched a spate of movies against the resurgence of right-wing radicalism in Germany.
		With his 2002 family drama VÄTER (I'm the Father), Levy painted a highly topical and vivid portrait of an ambitious generation that is forever at risk of coming to grief over its own aspirations.
	www.firstrunfeatures.com /goforzucker_bio.html (394 words)

	j. - Director scores unlikely hit with comedy about German Jews
		Levy, who presented “Meschugge” (“The Giraffe”) at the festival six years ago, is scheduled to attend.
		Levy adds, “Underneath the understandable fear of poor ratings, I think there was a fear of political incorrectness and [to] not touch the German-Jewish issue.
		While Levy was adamant about taking Jews off their pedestal, he was equally careful not to present them as sleazy or cynical.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/26343/format/html/displaystory.html (761 words)

	Dani Levy News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		News about Dani Levy continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Berlin filmmaker Dani Levy, currently wrapping production on the Adolf Hitler comedy "Mein Fuehrer," will take another wry look at the Nazi era for his next project.
		Dani Levy is no stranger to controversy Filming starts on a controversial new project this month - a comedy, in German, about Adolf Hitler.
	www.topix.net /who/dani-levy (247 words)

	IONCINEMA.com presents: I'm the Father (Vater) (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As a result of the successful Run Lola Run’s of German independent cinema, German actor, writer, and director Dani Levy rolls out a screenplay that will strike a cord with German audiences whom might not want to see Das Experiment for a zwei-th time.
		They don’t call it the “7 year itch” for nothing- Levy brings to us a modernized Kramer vs Kramer in form of Vater- I’m the Father- this film is about the daunting task of raising a family and not knowing how to patch the cracking foundations of a family in distress.
		Levy gives us a viewer dynamic drama here-treated with a filmic sensitivity, the characters bring their emotional weight to the celluloid.
	www.ioncinema.com /beta/review.php?id=96 (369 words)

	Dani Levy - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone
		Filmmaker, actor, Dani Levy started out on the German stage in the mid-'70s.
		Dani Levy was born in 1957 in Basel/Switzerland.
		Dani Levy - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Dani Levy Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/dani-levy/196750/main (117 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A split family forced to sit shiva together is, of course, a metaphor for the awkward recent years of German reunification, and the film’s German audience was apparently amused by the thought that a Jewish family serves as the allegorical framework of their dilemma.
		Levy shot “Zucker” for German television, in 16-mm., but, after screening it a few times for audiences, he realized he had made something that would play in theatres.
		The movie is raw-looking, and Levy throws the camera around as if it were a Teddy bear, but he controls the actors with calm professional skill—all the characters, beautifully developed in short scenes, are touching and slightly absurd at the same time.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/content/articles/060123crci_cinema (1369 words)

	village voice > film > Go for Zucker by J. Hoberman
		An enormous hit in Germany, Levy's breezy farce begins with a comatose man narrating from a hospital gurney.
		He may be a lovable rogue (faking a heart attack as his mother is lowered into her grave, playing the Holocaust card to avoid elimination from a billiards tournament), but there's a definite shortage of wacky neighbors.
		Levy's project to restore a Jewish dimension to German culture is extremely circumspect in addressing that culture.
	villagevoice.com /film/0603,hoberman,71720,20.html (340 words)

	FILM REVIEW; Grandpa's Chocolate Burns Inside a German Potboiler - New York Times
		To see ''The Giraffe,'' the new film by Dani Levy and Maria Schrader that anchors this week's retrospective of Mr.
		Levy's work at Anthology Film Archives, is to be confronted by a series of mysteries.
		Levy seem to labor under the assumption that making a film about an important, politically charged subject is the same as making an important, politically charged film.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5D7133FF937A35751C0A9669C8B63 (588 words)

	Nextbook: Sweet and Lowdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Levy is one of Germany's most celebrated and successful filmmakers, as much a celebrity as the actors in his films.
		Levy worried about finding a cast who would share his sensibility.
		Before moving to Berlin in 1980, Levy, 48, worked his way through the fringes of Switzerland's arts circles: He was a circus acrobat and clown, then played in a rock band, before "accidentally" landing an acting job at the Basel State Theater.
	www.nextbook.org /cultural/feature.html?id=258 (1142 words)

	energylab.de / Dani Levy´s shooting with Helge Schneider as Adolf Hitler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dani Levy´s shooting with Helge Schneider as Adolf Hitler
		Dani Levy obtained a special authorization from Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit to shoot a crowd scene which will be part of his new comedy with Helge Schneider as Adolf Hitler.
		Technorati Tags: Dani Levy, Helge Schneider, Adolf Hitler
	www.energylab.de /wordpress?p=2395 (167 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review THE GIRAFFE (Meschugge) German/American movie by Dani Levy with Dani Levy, Maria Schrader, David ...
		The attack is big news around the world, including in a New York paper where a Holocaust escapee (Lynn Cohen) sees it and believes the man in the picture is her father.
		She and her son (Dani Levy) have a telegram sent, but the reply is negative — it's not her father after all.
		Suddenly, the mother is found bloody and sprawled in a hotel hallway, on the verge of death.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2000/giraffe.php3 (428 words)

	1999 SFJFF - Meschugge + Babcha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dani Levy (WITHOUT ME, SF JFF 1994) returns to the Festival with a dazzling new thriller that is sexy, taut and psychologically penetrating.
		Levy skillfully wends his way through a complex story into the shadowy recesses of a nightmare.
		This is a collaborative effort between Jewish actor/director Levy and renowned German actress Maria Schrader (WITHOUT ME, SF JFF 1994), who co-wrote the script.
	www.sfjff.org /sfjff19/programs/23P.html (274 words)

	Goethe-Institut Australia - Film Festival 2005 - Guests
		Dani Levy spent his youth acting as a clown and acrobat in a circus and as a member of a rock band.
		With the strong and active support of our colleagues from the Consulate General of Switzerland, we are happy to welcome Dani Levy as our Opening Night guest for the Festival.
		Dani Levy will present his film Go for Zucker!
	www.goethe.de /ins/au/pro/festival05/pages/guests.htm (617 words)

	They're Laughing at Jews in Germany
		Levy changed all that with "Zucker," a slapstick comedy about two Jewish brothers who, divided for 40 years by the Berlin Wall and reunited upon their mother's death, must reconcile old differences and observe the weeklong funeral rite of shiva in order to claim their inheritance.
		Levy isn't the only filmmaker taking advantage of a German audience that has warmed to Jewish subjects in recent years.
		Levy, who moved 25 years ago from Basel, Switzerland, to Berlin, where he lives with his wife and their 5-year-old daughter, has spent more than a decade building a track record of films with Jewish themes, such as "Meschugge" ("The Giraffe," 1998) and "Ohne Mich" ("Without Me," 1993).
	www.forward.com /articles/3425 (1495 words)

	Good intentions or no, don't go for 'Zucker!' \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		Director Dani Levy had the best intentions in constructing his somewhat daring social satire, which pokes fun at the schisms in German culture that linger after reunification.
		He takes equal stabs at Easterners, who in the film are somewhat backward and still adapting to capitalism, and Westerners, whom he holds as uppity and self-righteous.
		Levy exploits the living situation for countless oil-and-water gags, many of which are so corny and played-out that they feel as though they should be accompanied by the cheers of a live studio audience.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/116908 (567 words)

	Tom Tykwer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tykwer wrote the screenplay to and directed his first feature film, Deadly Maria, which aired on German television and saw a limited theatrical release in Germany and the international film festival circuit.
		In 1994, Tykwer founded the production company ‘X Filme Creative Pool’ with Stefan Arndt, Wolfgang Becker and Dani Levy.
		Tykwer and Becker wrote the screenplay for Life Is All You Get while working on Tykwer's second feature, Wintersleepers (1997), a much bigger and complex production than Deadly Maria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Tykwer (640 words)

	Go for Zucker! (2004)
		On Samuel's side, his boy, Joshua (Sebastian Blomberg), is following in his father's self-righteous footsteps, but Dad's cross (or, uh, star of David) to bear is his vampish daughter, Lilly (Elena Uhlig), who has her eye on a new conquest (so what if she and Thomas are first cousins?).
		Levy and co-writer Holgar Franke are aiming for the hilarity of Billy Wilder or Preston Sturges, only they never come close to realizing that admirable ambition.
		The characters are stereotypes, the situations—from Jaeckie inventing excuses to evade his Shiva duty to Samuel inadvertently ingesting ecstasy—are clichéd, and the ending seems like a forgone conclusion.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=141570&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (649 words)

	Austin Film Society :: AFS @ the Dobie - GO FOR ZUCKER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dani Levy's irrepressible comedy reunites East and West Germany in this story of two estranged brothers brought together after the death of their mother.
		Jaeckie (Henry Hübchen), formerly Jakob Zuckerman, is a charmer whose shtick is wearing a bit thin.
		German filmmaker Levi spent part of his youth as a circus acrobat and playing in a rock band.
	www.austinfilm.org /dobie/zucker.php (638 words)

	THE GIRAFFE: synopsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Her son, David (Dani Levy), meets a young set-designer, Lena Katz (Maria Schrader) who appears to be involved in the mysterious circumstances of his mother's death.
		In the course of their investigation, a mutual attraction grows, but the suspicions of David's sleazy lawyer Kaminski (David Strathairn) lead directly to Lena's family, threatening to undermine their relationship.
		The director Dani Levy appeared at the Basle Theatre from 1977-79 and was a member of Berlin's "Rote Grütze"-Theatre from 1980-1983.
	www.bavaria-film-international.de /htmls/filmpages/f03_031syno.html (161 words)

	Welcome to Deutsches Haus at NYU
		Deutsches Haus and the Consulate General of Switzerland present a variety of movies by Swiss actor/director Dani Levy.
		Levy will be present during one of the screenings.
		All films have been hand selected by him and will be shown as “surprise features” on the dates indicated in the program.
	www.nyu.edu /deutscheshaus/cult_calendar_0304.shtml (1243 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Go For Zucker
		Mediating much of the family's crisis is Jaeckie's stuttering son Thomas (Steffen Groth), a hunky piece of German man-meat everyone thinks is queer.
		Exorbitantly stuffed with exclamation-pointed incident (hence my inordinate focus on the story's plot detail), but emotionally evasive, Go For Zucker isn't my idea of a fun time at the movies, but to be completely fair, Levi's comedy isn't exactly as shrill as it may sound.
		Setting up an inevitable family reconciliation between his ethnic stereotypes against a culture-clashing backdrop of random go-for-broke action, Levi telegraphs the story's outcome early on.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=2008 (322 words)

	`The Giraffe': Grandpa's Chocolate Burns Inside a German Potboiler
		By A.O. o see "The Giraffe," the new film by Dani Levy and Maria Schrader that anchors this week's retrospective of Levy's work at New York's Anthology Film Archives, is to be confronted by a series of mysteries.
		But Schrader and Levy seem to labor under the assumption that making a film about an important, politically charged subject is the same as making an important, politically charged film.
		Directed by Dani Levy; written by Maria Schrader and Levy; director of photography, Carl F. Koschnick; edited by Sabine Hoffmann; music by Niki Reiser; production designers, Teresa Mastropierro and Volker Schaefer; produced by Stefan Amdt and X-Filme Creative Pool GmbH; released by German Independents and Bavaria Film International.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/020400giraffe-film-review.html (610 words)

	Go for Zucker (Alles auf Zucker!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Both films broached long-standing taboos in German media treatment of subject matter relating to the Holocaust.
		In the comedy of manners, Go for Zucker, Dani Levy reintroduces the long-standing tradition of (pre-Nazi-era) Yiddish humor in German-language stage and film.
		Levi enriches his tale—and embellishes the joke-telling—by lampooning contemporary German-Jewish life.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies13/GoforZucker.htm (767 words)

	'Go for Zucker!' wins big in Berlin - The TOMB movie news - Time Out Film
		Dani Levy's comedy sweeps the board at the German Film Awards.
		The film, which was written and directed by Dani Levy, tells the tale of a gambling, womanizing sports journalist who must rediscover his Jewish roots having suppressed them for years.
		It won the Golden Lola for best picture as well as awards for the film's director, lead actor, costume design, score and screenplay.
	www.timeout.com /film/news/524.html (245 words)

	energylab.de / Dani Levy shoots a crowd scene tomorrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dani Levy´s shooting tomorrow takes place in front of the Berlin cathedral (Berliner Dom).
		The new film “Hitler mein Führer contains a crowd scene in which New Year´s Eve of 1939 will be celebrated.
		Polysics carry on in Devo style made in Japan »
	www.energylab.de /wordpress?p=2389 (132 words)

	Cinequest—San Jose Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When Marco finally realizes that his self-absorbed life is empty without his son, it just may be too late.
		Acclaimed director Dani Levy (The Giraffe) does not take sides in his touching portrait of a modern family’s failed ambitions.
		Marco is immature and somewhat irresponsible, but is it reason enough to keep him from his son?
	www.cinequest.org /cgi-bin/cq_2003/event.cgi?event=I'm_The_Father (250 words)

	First Run Features: In Theaters
		“Jewish comedy, in Levy’s version, is now part of the human comedy…; Watching the antic inventions of “Go for Zucker,” I was moved by the thought that Jews have achieved a kind of Germanness again, and even more moved by the thought that Germans have achieved a kind of Jewishness again.” - The New Yorker
		The two are awkwardly reunited when they learn that in order to share their mother's inheritance they will need to reconcile before burying her according to Jewish custom in her native East Germany.
		Said to be the first German-Jewish comedy made in Germany since World War II, Dani Levy's controversial and highly entertaining contemporary farce was one of the most talked-about films in Europe this year and the winner in July of Germany's top film prize.
	firstrunfeatures.com /goforzucker_synopsis.html (223 words)

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