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Left Luggage (1998)

Left Luggage (1998)

Drama
Release Date: 1998, March 30
Directors: Jeroen Krabbé
Countries: Belgium, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States of America
Production: Favourite Films NV, Favourite Films NV, Shooting Star Filmcompany, Shooting Star Filmcompany
Cast: David Bradley, Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé, Laura Fraser, Maximilian Schell, Chaim Topol, Marianne Sägebrecht, Heather Weeks, Adam Monty

Overview:

While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which makes him look obsessed. He keeps checking old maps and keeps digging, trying to find, in fact, those he lost. His daughter Chaya is a beautiful modern girl looking for a part-time job. She finds a place as a nanny in the strictly observant Chassidic family with many children, although her secular manners clearly fly in the face of many commandments. One of the reasons she is accepted is that mother of the family is absolutely overburdened by the household, so she stays despite the resistance of the father, normally - an indisputable authority in the family. She develops a special bond with the youngest of the boys, four-year old Simcha, so far incapable of speaking.

Keywords:

jewish life holocaust (shoah) survivor