jewish life,holocaust (shoah) survivor

Left Luggage (1998)

Poster for Left Luggage

While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which makes him look obsessed. He keeps checking old maps and keeps digging, trying to find, in fact, those he lost. His daughter Chaya is a beautiful modern girl looking for a part-time job. She finds a place as a nanny in the strictly observant Chassidic family with many children, although her secular manners clearly fly in the face of many commandments. One of the reasons she is accepted is that mother of the family is absolutely overburdened by the household, so she stays despite the resistance of the father, normally - an indisputable authority in the family. She develops a special bond with the youngest of the boys, four-year old Simcha, so far incapable of speaking.

Cast & Crew

Director
Jeroen Krabbé
  • Profile picture of Laura Fraser
    Chaya Silberschmidt Laura Fraser
  • Profile picture of Isabella Rossellini
    Mrs. Kalman Isabella Rossellini
  • Profile picture of Jeroen Krabbé
    Mr. Kalman Jeroen Krabbé
  • Profile picture of David Bradley
    Concierge David Bradley
  • Profile picture of Marianne Sägebrecht
    Mrs. Silberschmidt Marianne Sägebrecht
  • Profile picture of Maximilian Schell
    Mr. Silberschmidt Maximilian Schell
  • Profile picture of Topol
    Yacov Apfelschnitt Topol

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Keywords

  • jewish life
  • holocaust (shoah) survivor