40 Nickels (movie)
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Yasmin Gorenberg
- Production companies: Tisch School of the Arts (NYU)
- Genre: Drama, History
- Budget: $40,000
- Release date: 3/19/2021
- Run time: 28 min.
Movie description
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?
