The Paper Bridge ( Die papierene Brücke )

The Paper Bridge (DVD) (*)

$26.99

Original Title: Die papierene Brücke
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1987 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Ruth Beckermann

Written By:
Ruth Beckermann

Actors:
Ruth Beckermann
Betty Beckermann
Salo Beckermann
Herbert Gropper
Robert Schindel
Willi Stern
Rabbi Wassermann

Synopsis:

Paper Bridge is a journey through Ruth Beckermann's own family's history and at the same time the story of Central Europe's Jews and of a region. It takes her from Vienna, where her grandmother survived the war and the nazis in hiding and to which her mother returned from Israel, to the landscapes of her father's childhood: the Bukowina, once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

I don't know exactly why I traveled east this winter, filmmaker Ruth Beckermann says of her documentary journey through Eastern Europe. 'I think I was just curious to know whether there was still any resemblance to the stories I grew up with.' Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust; her father was a war refugee from Romania and her mother was a native of Vienna who settled in Palestine in 1938. Tracing the migratory paths of her family before World War II, Beckermann returns to the European Jewish communities which inspired her childhood stories-the small towns around Theresienstadt and the remaining Jewish communities of Bucovnia, Romania, and Vienna.

Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust. Tracing the migratory paths of her family before World War II, Beckerman returns to the European Jewish communities which inspired her childhood stories.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 02 May, 2013.

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