Brussels-Transit

Overview

Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II was in Yiddish. This Belgian-based filmmaker, deeply impacted by New York experimental cinema, gives us a masterful blend of powerful drama and stark documentary to tell the story of postwar European Jewry. Home, as it had been, no longer exists, and all that Samy’s family wants is a place in which to sink new roots.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 18, 1982

Original language

Yiddish

Spoken languages

yiddish

Production

Paradise Films

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0212832