Left Luggage (1998)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Laura Fraser	...	Chaya Silberschmidt
	Adam Monty	...	Simcha Kalman
	Isabella Rossellini	...	Mrs. Kalman
	Jeroen Krabbé	...	Mr. Kalman
	Topol	...	Yacov Apfelschnitt (as Chaim Topol)
	Marianne Sägebrecht	...	Mrs. Silberschmidt, Chaya's Mother (as Marianne Saegebrecht)
	Maximilian Schell	...	Mr. Silberschmidt, Chaya's Father
	David Bradley	...	Concierge
	Heather Weeks	...	Sofie
	Miriam Margolyes	...	Mrs. Goldman
	Lex Goudsmit	...	Mr. Goldman
	Krijn ter Braak	...	Grandfather
	Mieke Verheyden	...	Grandmother (as Mieke Verheijden)
	Noura Van der Berg	...	Selma
	Lana Broekaert	...	Chaya (7 Years)

Storyline

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... Written by Yan Mazor & M.Ivanov  

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