Our Children

SCREENINGS

Neues Kino Theater, Basel Switzerland (2013)
St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center (2013)
Filmmuseum of Munich (2009)
International Yiddish Theatre Festival of Montreal (2009)
New York Jewish Film Festival (2007)
Miami Jewish Film Festival (2007)
Toronto Jewish Film Festival (2007)
Vancouver Jewish Film Festival (2007)
Stockholm Jewish Film Festival (2005)
Vienna Jewish Film Festival (2004)
Ashkenaz Festival, Toronto (1999)

This semi-documentary film (and Poland’s last Yiddish feature) features the comedy duo Szymon 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/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.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"Our Children is not only among the first films about the Holocaust, it is also the first to critique its representation.”
-J. Hoberman, Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds

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