A young Jewish German man is asking: what does the Holocaust have to do with my life in the 21st century?
Yaar is a young Jewish Berliner who dreams of becoming a game designer. He associates Judaism with nothing but victims who allowed themselves to be led to the slaughter. He accuses his father of suffering from the Holocaust, which he did not even experience himself. Out of rebellion, Yaar wants to develop a computer game: "Shoah. When God slept." In the Germany he created around 1940, Jews can defend themselves and Nazis can act humanely. Yaar's father is shocked.
He finds comrades-in-arms for the development of his computer game in his friends Sarah and Marcel. Yaar makes his grandmother Rina the role model for the young Jewish woman in the game. Her opponent, an SS officer, is inspired by one of Marcel's real-life ancestors. The three of them agree: the old roles of perpetrator and victim are getting in their way, and the past should finally be over! They travel together to Rina's birthplace Krakow, where Yaar uncovers a terrible family secret.
The game turns serious. The three friends realize what the events of the past have to do with themselves - as grandchildren of the victims and perpetrators of the past. A painful confrontation with their own history begins, which also changes the relationship between father and son.
ENDLICH TACHELES shows how the trauma of the survivors eats into the third generation and poses a highly topical question from the perspective of a 21-year-old: What does the Holocaust still have to do with me today?
Yaar is a young Jewish Berliner who dreams of becoming a game designer. He associates Judaism with nothing but victims who allowed themselves to be led to the slaughter. He accuses his father of suffering from the Holocaust, which he did not even experience himself. Out of rebellion, Yaar wants to develop a computer game: "Shoah. When God slept." In the Germany he created around 1940, Jews can defend themselves and Nazis can act humanely. Yaar's father is shocked.
He finds comrades-in-arms for the development of his computer game in his friends Sarah and Marcel. Yaar makes his grandmother Rina the role model for the young Jewish woman in the game. Her opponent, an SS officer, is inspired by one of Marcel's real-life ancestors. The three of them agree: the old roles of perpetrator and victim are getting in their way, and the past should finally be over! They travel together to Rina's birthplace Krakow, where Yaar uncovers a terrible family secret.
The game turns serious. The three friends realize what the events of the past have to do with themselves - as grandchildren of the victims and perpetrators of the past. A painful confrontation with their own history begins, which also changes the relationship between father and son.
ENDLICH TACHELES shows how the trauma of the survivors eats into the third generation and poses a highly topical question from the perspective of a 21-year-old: What does the Holocaust still have to do with me today?