Sam Hazak belongs to a family of Jewish shopkeepers in the Faubourg Montmartre area of Paris. Refusing to work in the family business, Sam becomes a notorious safebreaker. But despite his talent, he finds life difficult. He pretends to his family that he is a property developer, but nobody is fooled, least of all his grandfather, an old-school "mensch". Sam is asked by one of the area’s old bosses to take part in a robbery at a diamond merchant’s. The break-in could be very profitable and enable Sam to retire before his nine-year-old son starts asking too many questions about his father.
Source: Quiet Earth
Discuss in the forum or leave a comment below.
HOME
whats mensch supposed to mean in this context? its german and normally means "human" or "person".
ReplyDeletepretty much the standard definition of the word as adopted as a word in English. Human or person is the standard translation of the most common German usage, but in English it means a good person, or something like a decent person. That definition is recognized in German as well.
ReplyDeleteOn a related note, you have every comment on your blog feeding to Twitter? That's nuts man.
Mensch means: good person, stand up guy, stand up member of the community not dishonest or criminal.
ReplyDelete