Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library

This Thursday (at 7.30 PM) we will be showing a 95 minutes long Hungarian movie, titled “A Miracle in Cracow” . A mixture of languages are spoken in the movie (including, Hungarian, Polish, Yiddish, and English.), but it is thoroughly subtitled. The film is not related in the US but in Hungary it was rated the equivalent of PG. The film has a beautiful website in English, where you can read more about the film’s creators, view a gallery, listen to the soundtrack, and learn more about it. Here is the beginning of the official synopsis:

Piotr and his grandmother Mancika comb the streets of Budapest trying to restore the library taken from the family during World War II. Mancika is especially keen on finding The Silver Crown, the book with which Rabbi Levi brings the dead back to life. Fifteen years later, Mancika has passed away and Piotr makes a living as a bookseller in Cracow, Poland. A young Hungarian student, Esther, arrives in Cracow to restore an old tombstone in the Jewish cemetery.

With the help of the preview below you can get a sense, that the story is told as a fable with quite a few dreamlike sequences.