40 Nickels
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- Runtime
- 28 mins
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?
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
- Grayson Taylor
- Carole Foreman
- Te'ena Klein
- Leo Grinberg
- Catherine Ashmore Bradley
- Kathleen Bernhard
- Andy Boxold
- Aubin Bradley
- Lucas Cardona
- Keira Coakley
- Charles Goldfischer
- Blake Goldstein
- Kate Karen
- Jeff Levinson
- Donald Mohan
- Joshua Packard
- Cailyn Peddle
- Sarina Roffe
- J. Anthony Roman
- Mathieu Silverman
- Linda Simon
- Catherine Taormina
- Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter
Director
- Yasmin Gorenberg
Producers
- Pinar Binay
- Olivia Krueger
- Brooke Gehris
- Demetrius Beckham
