40 Nickels
Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it. “40 Nickels” captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s and through that spotlights the effects of the 1919 pogroms in Eastern Europe. This is a film about parents and children: how trauma never leaves a family, and how hope and resilience is also passed down. It asks the question: Can a new generation look at the world with wonder rather than fear?
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Cast
Grayson Taylor
Carole Foreman
Te'ena Klein
Leo Grinberg
Catherine Ashmore Bradley
Kathleen Bernhard
Andy Boxold
Aubin Bradley
Lucas Cardona
Keira Coakley
Charles Goldfischer
Blake Goldstein
Kate Karen
Jeff Levinson
Donald Mohan
Joshua Packard
Cailyn Peddle
Sarina Roffe
J. Anthony Roman
Mathieu Silverman
Linda Simon
Catherine Taormina
Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter
