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Experimental Stories for a New Year
12 January Saturday
Odessa ... Odessa!
Director: Michale Boganim
Cast: Esther Hossid, Victoria Lesina, David Varer
France, Israel, color, 2004, 102’
Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, English with Turkish subtitles
Michale Boganim, a young Franco-Israeli filmmaker, follows the journeys of Odessa’s Jewish community, exiled from Israel and the United States. She offers a nostalgic and touching triptych of these cities in three colors: blue Odessa, with the faded beauty of an old city, Little Odessa, a Russian enclave in brick-colored New York, and Ashdod, a glaringly white mushroom town that has strung up in the Israeli desert.
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