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Saved by Language (2015)
Directed by Bryan Kirschen, Susanna Zaraysky
Documentary · 53m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Bryan Kirschen, Susanna Zaraysky
- Writer
- Susanna Zaraysky, Bryan Kirschen
- Director of Photography
- Zeljko Svetinovic
- Editor
- Zeljko Svetinovic
- Producer
- Susanna Zaraysky, Bryan Kirschen
Details
- Release date
- 2015-01-15
- Runtime
- 53m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Bosnian
- Countries
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, United States of America
- Production
- Saved by Language Productions
- Budget
- $15,000