Friday, Oct 28 to Wednesday, Nov 02

8:00 PM

Thalia cinema

Tickets 5 and 4 €

Film

France 1993

Ivan and Abraham

Directed by Yolande Zauberman
A Polish shtetl on the Russian frontier in the thirties. Adolescent Ivan from the neighbouring village, is serving a kind of apprenticeship under the Jew Nahman. Ivan's family respects the tradition that Christians send their sons into Jewish families to provide them with cultural and vocational education. Within the strange world of orthodox Jewry and shaped by prejudices on either side, Nahman's son finds his only friend...
„A movie of extraordinary power and beauty“ (Frankfurter Rundschau)