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40 Nickels (2021)
Directed by Yasmin Gorenberg
“An immigrant boy of the Depression era soars above his family's tragedies.”
Drama, History · 28m
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?
Cast
G
Grayson Taylor
Norm
C
Carole Foreman
Bubbe
Te'ena Klein
Ethel
L
Leo Grinberg
Itzik
Catherine Ashmore Bradley
Sarah
K
Kathleen Bernhard
Street Person
A
Andy Boxold
School Boy
Aubin Bradley
Sarah's Sister
L
Lucas Cardona
Ice Cream Man
K
Keira Coakley
School Girl
C
Charles Goldfischer
Street Person
B
Blake Goldstein
Irv
Crew
- Director
- Yasmin Gorenberg
- Writer
- Yasmin Gorenberg, Myra Noveck
- Director of Photography
- Danyal Niazi
- Original Music Composer
- Noah Horowitz
- Editor
- Lily Newton
- Producer
- Pinar Binay, Olivia Krueger, Brooke Gehris, Demetrius Beckham
Details
- Release date
- 2021-03-19
- Runtime
- 28m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Yiddish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Tisch School of the Arts (NYU)
- Budget
- $40,000