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Germany, Israel  2008, 91 mins

MENACHEM AND FRED is the exceptional story of the reunion of Menachem Mayer and Fred Raymes, two Jewish brothers with German roots, who survived the Holocaust in a French orphanage and who took vastly different directions at the end of World War II. 

Each of them chose the polar opposites of Jewish survival - while Fred concealed his Jewish-German origin and became an American citizen, Menachem adhered in Israel to Orthodox Judaism. For decades they renounced each other*s existence until the letters, which their parents had written to them from the concentration camp, brought them together again.

DIRECTORS: Ofra Tevet and Ronit Kerstner
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Klaus Sturm
EDITOR: Ronit Kertsner
MUSIC: Zbigniew Preisner
PRODUCER: Jens Meurer
CO-PRODUCERS: Ronit Kertsner, Ofra Tevet
SUPPORTED BY: Filmstiftung NRW, Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (MFG), New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and TV
COMMISSIONED BY: ZDF/ Arte, SWR, SR, NOGA TV 
WORLD SALES : The Little Film Company
GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR: Filmlichter