📜 Overview:
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.
💵 Budget: USD
15,000
🌏 Languages Available:
Bosnian
📆 Date Released:
2015-01-15
⌚ Running Time:
53 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
0.0
Beloved Cast
Moris Albahari
Ester Kaveson Debevec
Jacob Finci
David Kamhi
