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.
- Date de sortie
- 15 janvier 2015
- Pays d'origine
- Bosnie-Herzégovine, États-Unis
- Budget
- 15 000 $US
Distribution
- Moris Albahari dans le rôle de Moris Albahari
- Ester Kaveson Debevec dans le rôle de Ester Kaveson Debevec
- Jacob Finci dans le rôle de Jacob Finci
- David Kamhi dans le rôle de David Kamhi
Équipe technique
- Bryan Kirschen · Réalisateur
- Susanna Zaraysky · Réalisateur
- Zeljko Svetinovic · Directeur de la photographie
- Zeljko Svetinovic · Monteur