40 Nickels
Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it. “40 Nickels” captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s and through that spotlights the effects of the 1919 pogroms in Eastern Europe. This is a film about parents and children: how trauma never leaves a family, and how hope and resilience is also passed down. It asks the question: Can a new generation look at the world with wonder rather than fear?
- genus: Drama, History
- Studio: Tisch School of the Arts (NYU)
- keyword: yiddish language, yiddish
- cast: Grayson Taylor, Carole Foreman, Te'ena Klein, Leo Grinberg, Catherine Ashmore Bradley, Kathleen Bernhard
