JIFF: Love & Mazel Tov

Offering a clever take on social appropriation and historical guilt, Love & Mazel Tov is a witty, warm-hearted look at modern love.

What begins as a flirtatious fib snowballs into a wild tangle of lies, ensnaring two couples in a comedy of errors. 

At a party, Daniel pretends to be Jewish to impress Anne, who volunteers at a Jewish retirement home and owns a Berlin bookstore specialising in everything Jewish despite being a gentile. When Anne and Daniel become a couple, their friends Laura and Tobias have an inkling that Daniel's hoax will soon have to be caught. His initially small con turns into an unmanageable web of white lies that Daniel can't get out of. Will Anne also love him when she learns that he is not Jewish at all? 

Rating

E

Language

German (English subtitles)

Cast

Verena Altenberg, Lasse Myhr, Lisa Wagner

Director

Wolfgang Murnberger