When People Die They Sing Songs

2014 47min

Music resists oblivion and death. Yiddish songs help Holocaust victims return to their past after a half-century-long silence. The mother is terminally ill. The daughter is trying to write down the family history while the disease has not yet prevailed over her mother, and she recognizes the people in the photos in the family album.

Storyline

Music resists oblivion and death. Yiddish songs help Holocaust victims return to their past after a half-century-long silence. The mother is terminally ill. The daughter is trying to write down the family history while the disease has not yet prevailed over her mother, and she recognizes the people in the photos in the family album.

Released
March 1, 2014
Runtime
47min
Director
Language
Russian