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Left Luggage

United States, Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom

1998

96 Min
Color
1.66:1
English, Hebrew, Yiddish
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DIR Jeroen Krabbé

EXEC Craig Haffner

PROD Ate de Jong, Hans Pos, Dave Schram

SCR Carl Friedman, Edwin de Vries

DP Walther van den Ende

CAST Isabella Rossellini, Maximilian Schell, Laura Fraser, Jeroen Krabbé, Adam Monty, Topol, Marianne Sägebrecht, David Bradley, Miriam Margolyes, Heather Weeks, Lex Goudsmit, Krijn ter Braak, Mieke Verheyden, Noura Van der Berg, Koen De Bouw, Antonie Kamerling, Michael Pas

ED Edgar Burcksen

PROD DES Hemmo Sportel

MUSIC Henny Vrienten

SOUND Sophie Determeyer

Berlinale (Competition): Special Mention, Blue Angel, Chicago, AFI FEST (Premieres)

Synopsis

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… —IMDb

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