A Bottle In the Basement
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A Bottle In the Basement
In the winter of 1978 a Polish farmer demolishes a flight of stairs leading to his cellar and finds an old vodka bottle crammed with dozens of notes in Yiddish. Yaakov Gutterman, today an artist and teacher living in Kibbutz HaOgen, hears the news and is certain this is the bottle hidden by his father with the notes describing in detail what he witnessed during the Holocaust. The story of the search for these notes is also the story of 7-year-old Yaakov and his family’s six-year struggle to survive the war in Krakow.
Festivals and Awards:
Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel, 2000
Director: Shmuel Imberman
Producer: Zvi Shefi, Colin Rozin
Cinematographer: Colin Rozin
Editor: Shenki Gottesdiner
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Telad
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: בקבוק במרתף
In the winter of 1978 a Polish farmer demolishes a flight of stairs leading to his cellar and finds an old vodka bottle crammed with dozens of notes in Yiddish. Yaakov Gutterman, today an artist and teacher living in Kibbutz HaOgen, hears the news and is certain this is the bottle hidden by his father with the notes describing in detail what he witnessed during the Holocaust. The story of the search for these notes is also the story of 7-year-old Yaakov and his family’s six-year struggle to survive the war in Krakow.
Festivals and Awards:
Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel, 2000
Director: Shmuel Imberman
Producer: Zvi Shefi, Colin Rozin
Cinematographer: Colin Rozin
Editor: Shenki Gottesdiner
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, Telad
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: בקבוק במרתף