Release Date

19 Mar, 2021

Runtime

00:28: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

An immigrant boy of the Depression era soars above his family's tragedies.

Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it. “40 Nickels” captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s and through that spotlights the effects of the 1919 pogroms in Eastern Europe. This is a film about parents and children: how trauma never leaves a family, and how hope and resilience is also passed down. It asks the question: Can a new generation look at the world with wonder rather than fear?

Original Title

40 Nickels

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Actors

Grayson Taylor

Carole Foreman

Te'ena Klein

Leo Grinberg

Catherine Ashmore Bradley

Kathleen Bernhard

Andy Boxold

Aubin Bradley

Lucas Cardona

Keira Coakley

Charles Goldfischer

Blake Goldstein

Kate Karen

Jeff Levinson

Donald Mohan

Joshua Packard

Cailyn Peddle

Sarina Roffe

J. Anthony Roman

Mathieu Silverman

Linda Simon

Crew

Yasmin Gorenberg

Myra Noveck

Yasmin Gorenberg

Veronica Polsgrove

Ainé Gleeson

Pinar Binay

Danielle Privat

Noah Horowitz

Allison Ikeda

Cami Arias Silva

Kara Bartek

Rosalie Whitehead

Shalemar Coloma

Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter