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40 Nickels (2021)

Directed by Yasmin Gorenberg

Overview

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?

Rated NR | Length 28 minutes

Actors

Grayson Taylor | Lucas Cardona | Cailyn Peddle | Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter | Catherine Ashmore Bradley | J. Anthony Roman | Catherine Taormina | Leo Grinberg | Linda Simon | Aubin Bradley | Carole Foreman | Te'ena Klein | Kathleen Bernhard | Andy Boxold | Keira Coakley | Charles Goldfischer | Blake Goldstein | Kate Karen | Jeff Levinson | Donald Mohan | Joshua Packard | Sarina Roffe | Mathieu Silverman