In 1990, he wrote the music and lyrics for "The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets, " a theatrical collaboration with the American writer William Burroughs based on a German folktale.

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It is illegal in Germany though and so if someone in Germany reads a piece which denies the Holocaust then the writer of that piece can be hauled up in front of a German court and tried and then punished.

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The writer-director, Dani Levy, a forty-eight-year-old German Jew, was born in Switzerland after his mother escaped Berlin in 1939.

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