The Family Friend [SEP] director
The Family Friend
The Family Friend () is a 2006 Italian film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot.
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by
Olga (24 Sep 1897, Berlin — 2 Aug 1922, Berlin). The family was Jewish.
He studied mathematics and physics at the Berlin University, where Albert Einstein was one of his professors, and later became a friend and advisor.
In 1923, Herzberger finished his Ph.D. thesis "Ueber Systeme hyperkomplexer Grössen" under Ludwig Bieberbach and Issai Schur at the philosophical faculty.
In 1925, he married Edith Kaufmann (10 Oct 1901, Stuttgart — 16 Feb 2001, Carlsbad (California) or New Orleans