MENACHEM & FRED    Documentary Germany / Israel 2008 German Theatre Premiere: Sept. 30th, 2009 Directors: Ofra Tevet and Ronit Kerstner Director of Photography: Klaus Sturm 2nd Unit Cam.: Manfred A. Hagbeck Editor: Ronit Kertsner Sound: Bernd von Bassewitz Music: Zbigniew Preisner Producer: Jens Meurer Co-Producers: Ronit Kertsner, Ofra Tevet Line Producer: Marc Wächter Supported by: Filmstiftung NRW, Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (MFG), New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and TV Commissioned by: ZDF/ Arte, SWR, SR, NOGA TV Menachem & Fred is the exceptional story of the reunion of Menachem Mayer and Fred Raymes, two Jewish brothers with German roots, who survived the Holocaust in a French orphanage and who took vastly different directions at the end of World War II. Each of them chose the polar opposites of Jewish survival - while Fred concealed his Jewish-German origin and became an American citizen, Menachem adhered in Israel to Orthodox Judaism. For decades they renounced each other*s existence until the letters, which their parents had written to them from the concentration camp, brought them together again.