Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula. Like Daniel Mendelsohn’s bestseller The Lost and David Ofek’s film No. 17 is Anonymous, this tightly-paced tour de force vividly evokes the now-extinguished lives of an anonymous-but typical-Israeli family. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 0.0/10 | |
Released: | January 1, 2008 | |
Genres: | Documentary | |
Companies: | The New Fund for Cinema and TV (NFCT) | |
Crew: | Tal Haim Yoffe | |
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