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Left Luggage(1998)
Status: Released
Date: 1998-03-30
63%
31 Votes
Time: 1h 40m
Overview:
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.
Languages: English, Hebrew, Yiddish.
Countries:
Netherlands,
United Kingdom,
Belgium
Revenue: $100,544.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Favourite Films NV
Movie: Left Luggage
Top 10 Billed Cast
Laura Fraser
Chaya Silberschmidt
Isabella Rossellini
Mrs. Kalman
Jeroen Krabbé
Mr. Kalman
David Bradley
Concierge
Marianne Sägebrecht
Mrs. Silberschmidt
Maximilian Schell
Mr. Silberschmidt
Chaim Topol
Yacov Apfelschnitt
Heather Weeks
Sofie
Lex Goudsmit
Men. Goldman
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Overview
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.
Release Date
1998-03-30
Average
6.3
Rating:
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