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.
- Data de estreia
- 15 de janeiro de 2015
- País de origem
- Bósnia e Herzegovina, Estados Unidos
- Orçamento
- US$ 15.000
Elenco
- Moris Albahari como Moris Albahari
- Ester Kaveson Debevec como Ester Kaveson Debevec
- Jacob Finci como Jacob Finci
- David Kamhi como David Kamhi
Equipe
- Bryan Kirschen · Diretor(a)
- Susanna Zaraysky · Diretor(a)
- Zeljko Svetinovic · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Zeljko Svetinovic · Editor(a)