Oskar und Jack
Germany,
1996, 60 min
Shown in 1996
CREDITS
- dir
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Frauke Sandig
- prod
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Wolfgang Bergmann
- scr
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Frauke Sandig
- cam
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Nurith Aviv
- editor
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Inge Schneider
- source
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Jane Balfour Films
- gga award
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Certificate of Merit, Film & Video: Biography
- premiere
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World Premiere
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COMMENTS
Shown with Drawn from Memory. Frauke Sandig in person.
OTHER
Twins Oskar and Jack were born in 1933 from the brief marriage of two Germans, one Jewish, one Christian, who met on a ship while emigrating. After six months, when their parents parted, Oskar returned to the Sudetenland with his mother and Jack remained in Trinidad with his father. Apart, they lived through stormy political times and personal trials. Oskar was raised Catholic in Nazi Europe; Jack was raised Jewish in the Caribbean and the U.S. The two met only briefly until they agreed to participate in a twins study in the late ’70s. Oskar and Jack tell their own incredible stories, allowing the viewer to observe their similarities and differences. Their unusual circumstances evoke consideration of what it means to be a German, American or Islander; a Jew or Christian; part of a family; a brother.
—Rachel Rosen
FACTOID #300
When she attended the 1980 San Francisco International Film Festival for a tribute, Federico Fellini’s wife and muse Giulietta Masina, admitted that she accepted a bit part in the American film The Madwoman of Chaillot (despite the fact that she could not speak English) just so she could get costar Katherine Hepburn’s autograph.
