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When people die they sing songs

When people die they sing songs

16+

47 min

English

Russian

7
Artdoc rating
Music resists oblivion and death. Yiddish songs help victims of the Holocaust return to their past after half a century of silence. The mother is terminally ill. The daughter is trying to write down the history of the family before the disease has overcome her mother, and she recognizes the people in the photographs in the family album. After the war, they never opened this album because they wanted to get away from the past forever. But music changed the usual course of things. A music therapist begins to visit her dying mother, with whom she sings songs of her youth in Yiddish. Since then, she wakes up at night and speaks in her native language. Her daughter is the only person in the family who understands Yiddish, speaks Yiddish to her and sings songs. The past gradually penetrates into the present. Mother and daughter have very little time to tell each other about the most important things. But the disease progresses, and the mother gradually loses her memory. Everything acquired by them dissolves in the stream of time.

Authors

Film crew

Director
Olga Lvova
Screen writer
Olga Lvova
Operator
Olga Lvova
Producer
Olga Lvova

MOVIE ABOUT

Theme
History, Psychology, War, Family, Holokost
Country
Russia, USA
Film studio
ДиплоДОК
Genre
Drama
Country of action
USA
Period of action
2014
Festivals
Lavr doc 2014, International festivals 2014
Financing
Independent
TVPG
16+
Languages
English
Subtitles
Russian

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