40 Nickels
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?
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Yasmin Gorenberg
Writer
Myra Noveck
Writer
Yasmin Gorenberg
Director
Danielle Privat
Key Makeup Artist
Rosalie Whitehead
Art Department Assistant
Grant Thorshov
Boom Operator
Dannie Giglevitch
Costume Design
Iris Liu
Sound Mixer
Danyal Niazi
Director of Photography
Pete Christmann
Sound Mixer
Noah Horowitz
Music
Sibel Elaltunterin
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