Ivan & Abraham
- IMDb link: 0107588
- IMDb rating: 6.8 (307 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Yolande Zauberman
- Cast: Roma Alexandrovitch, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Vladimir Mashkov, Mariya Lipkina and others
- Release date: 26 May 1993
- Release year: 1993
- Runtime: 105 minutes
- Country: France, Belarus
- Keywords: older girl younger boy relationship, teenager, first person title, comma in title, goy, jewish family, yiddish, speaking yiddish, raised by grandfather, teenage girl
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The action of the movie takes place in the thirties before the Jewish pogrom in the border town of Poland, which became a kind of emigration zone. Two teenagers - Ivan and Abram - run away from the dictates of adults into a big life.
In 1930s Poland, it was traditional for some Christian boys to live for a time with Jewish families in order to learn a trade from Jewish craftsmen. For this reason, Ivan has gone to live on a large estate with Abraham and his family, has learned Yiddish, and has become Abraham's best friend. But the anti-Semitism born of poverty, ignorance, and superstition is fierce in this community of and the two boys run away into the countryside to flee an imminent conflict. Journeying together in a menacing environment, they reveal their innocence and inseparability.
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