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Identical twins, Oskar and Jack were conceived during a shipboard romance between a German Catholic woman and a Romanian Jewish man. The couple, bound for a new life in the Caribbean, separated shortly after the twins' birth in Trinidad in 1933. When the parents split, the brothers' lives took radically different turns. Oskar returned to Germany with his mother where he was raised a Catholic and, in the spirit of the Nazi era, joined the Hitler youth. Jack stayed in the Caribbean with his father who raised him as a progressive Jew. Years later, a brief meeting found the young men on opposite sides of the ideological and ethnic spectrum. The two hardly knew each other when they met and began to appreciate each other during a 1979 United States research project on twins. In OSKAR AND JACK the brothers tell their incredible story, permitting us to observe their similarities and differences and to ponder the meaning of identity. 1996 San Francisco International Film Festival.
