The read
It runs a compact 53m.
Synopsis
Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo (born 1930), who spoke Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, his mother tongue, to survive the Holocaust. Moris used Ladino to communicate with an Italian Colonel who helped him escape to a Partizan refuge after he ran away from the train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944 he was able to survive and lead the pilot, along with his American and British colleagues, to a safe Partizan airport.
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Key crew
- Bryan KirschenDirector
- Bryan KirschenWriter
- Susanna ZarayskyDirector
- Susanna ZarayskyWriter
Cast
- Moris AlbahariCast
- Ester Kaveson DebevecCast
- Jacob FinciCast
- David KamhiCast
Themes
yugoslaviaholocaust (shoah)world war iipartisanyugoslavian historyjewish historybosniajewishsarajevosefaradeladinojudeo espanol