SuperTex

SuperTex
Director
Jan Schütte
Country
Germany, France, Netherlands
Year
2003
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Richard Reitinger / Andrew Kazamia / Jan Schütte
Cast
Stephen Mangan / Jan Decleir / Maureen Lipman / Elliot Levey / Tracy-Ann Oberman
Production
HaleBob Film / Novoskop Film / Minerva Film / Tobis Filmproduktion / WDR (DE) / ARTE France Cinema / Covimage (FR)

Storyline

Max Breslauer, attractive, vital and in his mid-thirties, is living as a business consultant in Amsterdam. He is the elder of Simon Breslauer's two sons, who as the only one of a family of poor East European Jews survived the war and established a textile empire in the Netherlands. Simon is an experienced businessman, rough, yet clumsy - and full of sentimentality. Strict and loving at the same time, he values traditions such as the obligatory family dinner on Shabbat, which he uses for suffocating his two sons and his wife with his Jewish worldly wisdoms.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

San Sebastián International Film Festival 2003
Official Selection