Hindsight is always 20/20. An irony that isn't lost in the pre-WW 2 drama A Happy End, about affluent Jews enduring the first signs of Nazi violence in the early 1930s. The Erdmann family -- the gifted scientist Mark (Curzon Dobell), his elegant wife Leah (Carmit Levité) and talented teenage poet son Hans (Phil Gillen) -- enjoy all the cultural and scientific benefits of Berlin. That is, until 1932-'33, when Hitler's rise in the Reichstag and the outbreak of virulent anti-Semitism quickly estab...
Hindsight is always 20/20. An irony that isn't lost in the pre-WW 2 drama A Happy End, about affluent Jews enduring the first signs of Nazi violence in the early 1930s. The Erdmann family -- the gifted scientist Mark (Curzon Dobell), his elegant wife Leah (Carmit Levité) and talented teenage poet son Hans (Phil Gillen) -- enjoy all the cultural and scientific benefits of Berlin. That is, until 1932-'33, when Hitler's rise in the Reichstag and the outbreak of virulent anti-Semitism quickly estab...
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