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Left Luggage

1998 · 1h 40m · 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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Cast

• Laura Fraser as Chaya Silberschmidt
• Adam Monty as Simcha Kalman
• Isabella Rossellini as Mrs. Kalman
• Jeroen Krabbé as Mr. Kalman
• David Bradley as Concierge
• Marianne Sägebrecht as Mrs. Silberschmidt
• Maximilian Schell as Mr. Silberschmidt
• Chaim Topol as Yacov Apfelschnitt
• Heather Weeks as Sofie
• Lex Goudsmit as Men. Goldman
• Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Goldman

Details

Director

Jeroen Krabbé

Released

March 30, 1998

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Drama

Studio

Favourite Films NV and Shooting Star Filmcompany

Status

Released

TMDB score

6.3 / 10 from 31 votes