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Left Luggage

64 %|Mar 30, 1998|Drama

While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which makes him look obsessed. He keeps checking old maps and keeps digging, trying to find, in fact, those he lost. His daughter Chaya is a beautiful modern girl looking for a part-time job. She finds a place as a nanny in the strictly observant Chassidic family with many children, although her secular manners clearly fly in the face of many commandments. One of the reasons she is accepted is that mother of the family is absolutely overburdened by the household, so she stays despite the resistance of the father, normally - an indisputable authority in the family. She develops a special bond with the youngest of the boys, four-year old Simcha, so far incapable of speaking.

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Jeroen Krabbé
Director
Edgar Burcksen
Editor
Carl Friedman
Novel
Edwin de Vries
Writer

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Cast

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Laura Fraser
Chaya Silberschmidt
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Adam Monty
Simcha Kalman
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Jeroen Krabbé
Mr. Kalman
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David Bradley
Concierge
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Marianne Sägebrecht
Mrs. Silberschmidt
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Maximilian Schell
Mr. Silberschmidt
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Topol
Yacov Apfelschnitt