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Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II was in Yiddish. This Belgian-based filmmaker, deeply impacted by New York experimental cinema, gives us a masterful blend of powerful drama and stark documentary to tell the story of postwar European Jewry. Home, as it had been, no longer exists, and all that Samy’s family wants is a place in which to sink new roots.

Keywords

  • Belgian cinema
  • Cine-Short: 90 Minutes of cinema
  • CINEMATEK@Home
  • Escape to the 80's
  • Remastered Movies

Actors

  • Hélène Lapiower
  • Boris Lehman
  • Jeremy Wald
  • Suzy Falk
  • Micha Wald

Director

  • Samy Szlingerbaum

Documentary


1h 20min


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Belgium
1982
Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II was in Yiddish. This Belgian-based filmmaker, deeply impacted by New York experimental cinema, gives us a masterful blend of powerful drama and stark documentary to tell the story of postwar European Jewry. Home, as it had been, no longer exists, and all that Samy’s family wants is a place in which to sink new roots.

Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II was in Yiddish. This Belgian-based filmmaker, deeply impacted by New York experimental cinema, gives us a masterful blend of powerful drama and stark documentary to tell the story of postwar European Jewry. Home, as it had been, no longer exists, and all that Samy’s family wants is a place in which to sink new roots.


Cast & Crew

samy-szlingerbaum

Director

Samy Szlingerbaum

helene-lapiower

Cast

Hélène Lapiower

boris-lehman

Cast

Boris Lehman

jeremy-wald

Cast

Jeremy Wald

suzy-falk

Cast

Suzy Falk

micha-wald

Cast

Micha Wald


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