This clever and heartfelt mockumentary unfolds like a detective story exploring the disappearance of a fictional Yiddish actor 25 years ago. The only clue, a mysterious inscription on the door of his house reading “schund”.
Year: 2010
Language: Hebrew, English Subtitles
Director: Yael Leibovitz Zand
Producers: Ido Zand, Yael Leibovitz Zand
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Every year, Israeli high school students embark on a school trip to Poland to commemorate the Holocaust, known in Israel as "The Journey to Poland." Since it began in the late 1980s, the traditional journey includes 100 teenagers, 4 concentration camps, 3 mass graves, 2 ghettos and 14 memorial s...
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