On Thursday, 3/17, I went to go see the film “The Flat” that the Wasserman Jewish Studies Center Film Series presented. It was an interesting film, almost completely in German with English subtitles, about a man who searches through his family’s history after his grandmother dies. After sorting things out at his deceased grandmothers apartment, he finds out his grandmother and grandfather traveled to Palestine with another couple, one of whom was a Nazi propagandist in the 1930’s. The man later finds out that the Nazi propagandist was Adolf Eichmann, who was eventually named a war criminal. The man, understandingly, is confused as to why his grandmother and grandfather would travel with such a man.

The movie presented many moments of intensity, but also had some moments of humor. My favorite part is a part when the man invites a book collector over to his deceased grandmother’s apartment to go through the books she had. The book collector saw a collection of Shakespeare and said they were meaningless and that Americans usually buy Shakespeare to look “cultured”. It’s funny how different countries value certain things that are wildly popular across the world.