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?
as Norm
as Bubbe
as Ethel
as Itzik
as Sarah
as Street Person
as School Boy
as Sarah's Sister
as Ice Cream Man
as School Girl
as Street Person
as Irv
as Street Child
as Store Customer
as Street Person
as Jim
as Street Child
as School Girl
as Handbill Man
as Street Child
as Mrs. Goldberg
as Mrs. Stein
as Body Double (Norm)
