Release Date

01 Jan, 1948

Runtime

01:08: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

This semi-documentary film (and Poland’s last Yiddish feature) features the comedy duo Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher who had recently returned from the Soviet Union, and Jewish children who had survived the Holocaust. Directed on location by Nathan Gross and Shaul Goskind at at the JDC-supported Helenowek Colony, an orphanage and school near Lodz, this film includes Dzigan and Shumacher's virtuoso turn as all the characters in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke Brent (Kasrilevke is Burning), and an exchange of roles where they become the children's audience. Reversals continue during the performers' visit to the children's residence, as the children teach adults about the healing possibilities of music, dance and storytelling.

Original Title

אונדזערע קינדער

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Actors

Szymon Dżigan

Israel Schumacher

Nusia Gold

Nathan Meisler

Hadasa Kestin

Crew

Natan Gross

Shaul Berezowski

Shaul Goskind

Shaul Goskind

J. Slepak-Juszynski

Natan Gross

Shaul Goskind

Szymon Dżigan

Israel Schumacher

L. Cioczowski

Z. Liczka