Underplayed Gems

The Flat (2011)

The Flat poster
Directed by
Arnon Goldfinger
Genre
documentary film
Country
Israel
Runtime
1h 37m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 24 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A filmmaker clears out his grandmother's apartment in Tel Aviv after her death. He discovers letters and documents that reveal her past connections to Nazi Germany and challenge his family's history.

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What happens

The Flat (Hebrew: הדירה) is a 2011 feature documentary film, an Israeli–German co-production written and directed by Arnon Goldfinger. It was theatrically released in Israel in September 2011. It played continuously for thirteen months and has received rave reviews. Time Out Tel Aviv chose to place the film at the top of its recommended films for 49 weeks under the headline: "not to be missed" and chose it as one of the 25 most important art works from around the world for 2011. The Flat was theatrically released in Germany in June 2012. The German version of the film features the voice of renowned German actor Axel Milberg taking on the role of narrator Arnon Goldfinger. The Flat was theatrically released in USA in October 2012 and was theatrically released in Hungary in April 2015. The film won the 2012 Best Editing in a Documentary Feature Award in the Tribeca Film Festival World Documentary Competition. It was the opening film at Dok Munich in 2012. The flat was one of the final three nominees for the German Academy Film Awards 2013 ("Lola"). and nominated for the German TV Grimme Awards 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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