'I don’t want them to take anything away from it. I want them to just watch it and hopefully get a laugh or two,' Seinfeld says.
There is a lot of television and movie programming this year that honors them and those they left behind, as well as Independence Day-themed content.
Most of the programs at the Jerusalem Cinematheque are free of charge.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is more visually accurate than many other Holocaust dramas, with inmates looking disheveled and dirty. The violence is also appropriately graphic.
The series examines the drama caused by their being foreigners in a place that offers a stimulating artistic environment but is shadowed by the tragic history of the Holocaust.
Their self-deprecating likability lifts this series above its often formulaic script, and if you stick with it, it will be because you enjoy spending time in their company.
While this might sound like a plotline on Grey’s Anatomy, with these two, it could turn out to be much more interesting and might even be the next Israeli series that gets remade around the world.
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