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Bryn Mawr Film Institute |
Saturday, March 24, 2012, 8:45 pm |
In a poor neighborhood in 1960's Lodz, Poland, 10-year-old Tadek (Jakub Wróblewski) and his brother (Lukasz Sikora) are in a gang with a strong anti-Semitic bent. When they are arrested, their mother (Aleksandra Poplawska), a Holocaust survivor, has no choice but to reveal that though raised as Catholics, they are in fact Jews.Telling the younger boy they are going to Australia, the land of his fantasies, the family boards a ship to Israel. This tender and humorous drama is based on the filmmaker’s own experiences.
| Country: | Israel and Poland |
| Release Date: | 2011 |
| Time: | 96 minutes |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Language: | Hebrew and Polish with English subtitles |
| Director: | Ami Drozd |
| Topics: | Family, Holocaust/World War II, Immigrants to Israel |
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