40 Nickels (2021) — drama, history film. Directed by Yasmin Gorenberg. Starring Grayson Taylor, Carole Foreman, Te'ena Klein, Leo Grinberg. This page maps 6 characters and 10 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A multi-generational story about trauma, resilience, and hope passed down through a refugee family
Drama, History · 28 min · 2021
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?