Herr Zwilling und Frau Zuckermann

In the west of Ukraine not far from the border to Romania there is a faraway European city Czernowitz It was once the centre of Jewish culture in the Bukowina a border area characterized over centuries by a multicultural mixture of peoples Here Ukrainians Poles Romanians Germans and Jews lived side by side Volker Koepps film focuses on Mr Zwilling and Mrs Zuckermann two of the last few Jews born in the old Czernowitz They share a friendship but also their love for the German language Mr Zwilling visits 90yearold Mrs Zuckermann daily in the early hours of the evening They talk about old times about shared events about politics and literature and the worries of everyday life