Film
Saved by Language
2015 · 53m · Documentary
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Overview
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.
Cast
Crew
- Bryan KirschenDirector · Writer
- Susanna ZarayskyDirector · Producer
- Susanna ZarayskyWriter
- Bryan KirschenProducer
- Zeljko SvetinovicDirector of Photography · Editor
Details
- Release date
- January 15, 2015
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 53m
- Budget
- $15,000
- Genres
- Documentary
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