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Apr 26, 2013 · CARPATI: 50 MILES, 50 YEARS. Zev Godinger is the caretaker of the Jewish community of Beregovo, Ukraine. When Zev meets Yale and his partner David Notowitz, he decides to return to his...
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May 30, 2020 · Telling the story about the relationship between Jews and Gypsies in Carpathian Region after the Holocaust.
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- Tibor Weitzen
A Jewish ice cream vendor in the Carpathian Mountain region of Ukraine returns home to see his birthplace which he has not seen in 50 years.
On a more personal note, when Godinger triumphantly carries the Torah to his boyhood synagogue, which has been re-opened after fifty years, he's accompanied by Gypsy friends who play a Yiddish tune. Treating us to a beautiful, bittersweet musical legacy, director Yale Strom uncovers the last stronghold of Jewish life in a region once vibrant ...
A moving portrait (narrated by Leonard Nimoy) of the last stronghold of Jewish life in a once vibrant region, as seen through the eyes of a Holocaust survivor returning to his hometown. Free & Unticketed. 23/24 Hop Film.
Critics reviews. Zev Godinger a proste yid, or simple Jew, lives in the Carpathian mountains in the Ukraine. Zev has a special and rather harmonious friendship with his Gypsy neighbors. We see them in exhilarating musical “jam” sessions that demonstrate the subtle relationships between Gypsy and Jewish music.
May 24, 1996 · The combination of the Holocaust and the subsequent emigration decimated the once-thriving Jewish community in the Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains. One of the few holdouts is Zev Godinger, the colorful subject of writer-director Yale Strom's affectionate documentary.
