In 'The Cakemaker,' Grieving Is Baked In
An impassive German baker travels to Jerusalem to work in the restaurant owned by his dead lover's wife. It's complicated.
At first, we barely get to know the baby-faced, blue-eyed gentleman from Berlin, except for his recipes: golden cinnamon cookies, a lush and creamy Black Forest cake. This seems to be the way Thomas (Tim Kalkhof) likes it. He works at a traditional German bakery and largely keeps to himself, an oddity in a city with some of the wildest nightlife in the world. He even loves quietly,
