"Der Oger" and "The Syrian Bride"

Last evening we finally watched "The Syrian Bride".  Hearing Russian and French and Arabic was almost as much a treat as had I been allowed popcorn.  But the disappointment: at my elbow in my work-corner of the sofa is Veza Canetti, "Der Oger".  It is impossible to notice that the first son and his wife and son, (sons all bearing the name of the patriarch,) could not be living in an Israeli city, that she could not be a Jew, not even an unbelieving Russian Jew and certainly they could not be speaking Yiddish, let alone living in Vienna.  We know they could not be living in Lublin or Vilna.  They live in Russia.
The foreign wife's name was surely Helen and she would be a healer.  She does not have a wide face and thick, dark hair.  She is slender.  I know as surely as I know anything that Veza would have felt outrage.  Only worse would be if he had rescued his Russian bride from one of the reinstated Baltic states.  Where was the lack of courage? He could have found an ethnic Lithuanian in Kazakhstan from that other Diaspora or any other.
That she is blonde is the very worst cliché - the easiest, most facile sign of the other for the Druze family.
Yes, the blonde and red-haired Hasidim, I met them on the streets of Outremont where they would not acknowledge my existence let alone that I understood their Yiddish (unlike the urbane Orthodox who were even inter-married, who met in DP camps and on boats when crossing to us over the Atlantic.)
Do we really imagine that Putin could have helped resolve the impasse on the Golan?  He only envies the cult of personality achieved in Damascus and fears the cruel political satire of the Israeli press.
Yet Israel Film and Berlin Brandenburger participated in this French film project (have we already forgotten the role of France in the preposterous borders?)
Borders.  At least the fool, the uni-glot Kohl, committed to the Polish border, an essential prerequisite to tolerating reunification.  And who remembers the present circumstances of a Kaliningrad?  And where is Lublin?