Saved by Language (2015)
53 min
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.
- Release date
- January 15, 2015
- Country of origin
- Bosnia & Herzegovina, United States
- Budget
- $15,000
Cast
- Moris Albahari as Moris Albahari
- Ester Kaveson Debevec as Ester Kaveson Debevec
- Jacob Finci as Jacob Finci
- David Kamhi as David Kamhi
Crew
- Bryan Kirschen · Director
- Susanna Zaraysky · Director
- Zeljko Svetinovic · Cinematographer
- Zeljko Svetinovic · Editor