Saved by Language (2015)
Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo (born 1930), who spoke Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, his mother tongue, to survive the Holocaust. Moris used Ladino to communicate with an Italian Colonel who helped him escape to a Partizan refuge after he ran away from the train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944 he was able to survive and lead the pilot, along with his American and British colleagues, to a safe Partizan airport.
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Moris Albahari
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Ester Kaveson Debevec
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Jacob Finci
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David Kamhi
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Bryan Kirschen
Director
Director
Bryan Kirschen
Writer
Writer
Susanna Zaraysky
Director
Director
Susanna Zaraysky
Writer
Writer
Bryan Kirschen
Producer
Producer
Susanna Zaraysky
Producer
Producer
Zeljko Svetinovic
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Zeljko Svetinovic
Editor
Editor
Judy Chaikin
Consulting Producer
Consulting Producer
Can Evrensel
Translator
Translator
Monserrat Franco
Music
Music
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