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The Giraffe is a film of genre Thriller directed by Dani Levy with Maria Schrader

The Giraffe (1998)

The Giraffe
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Length 1h47
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Genres Thriller
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Meschugge (English title - The Giraffe) is a 1998 German thriller film directed by Dani Levy and set during World War II. The German title roughly translates as "crazy". The English title refers to the nickname of a character who was once in charge of the Treblinka extermination camp. The film features mainly English dialogue though features German dialogue as well.

Actors

Maria Schrader

(Lena Katz)Dani Levy

(David Fish)David Strathairn

(Charles Kaminski)Lynn Cohen

(Mrs Fish)Lukas Ammann

(Eliah Goldberg)
And :
Marcia Jean Kurtz
Nicole Heesters
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