Left Luggage

Left Luggage

Movie |

Jewish Life | Holocaust (shoah) Survivor

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  • Genre(s): Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Jeroen Krabbé
  • Cast(s): Laura Fraser, Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé, David Bradley, Marianne Sägebrecht See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 40min
  • Award(s): Blue Angel 1998 (Won)
    Golden Berlin Bear 1998 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Dead Man's Wire, The Punisher: One Last Kill
  • Story:
    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.
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7.3/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
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.
Ratings

7.3/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Nominations
Golden Berlin Bear Award

Best Film | 1998 | Jeroen

British Independent Film Award

Best Foreign Independent Film English Language | 1998

Gold Hugo Award

New Directors Competition | 1998 | Jeroen

Audience Award

Feature Film | 1998 | Jeroen

BOX OFFICE

Box Office Collection 100,544 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

First-time director Jeroen Krabbé admitted that he very insecure about the movie. When he got a call from composer Henny Vrienten, he was convinced that Vrienten didn't like the first footage shot for the film, and wanted out. However, Vrienten had loved what he saw, and got so inspired that he called to demonstrate some of the score he had written for it.

Although Edwin de Vries is credited as the sole screenwriter, he admitted that he got some helpful input from Robert Mark Kamen in exchange for a painting created by director Jeroen Krabbé and a special thanks in the credits. One of Kamen's suggestions was to make Simcha (Adam Monty) mute, until his interaction with Chaja (Laura Fraser) slowly makes him talk again. Writer Carl Friedman, author of the original novel, was very enthusiastic about this addition, and regretted that she had not come up with the idea herself.

Isabella Rossellini hesitated to take the role up until the last moment, because she thought that as a Catholic, she could not convincingly play an Orthodox Jewish woman.

This film marked the directorial debut of Jeroen Krabbé for a theatrical feature, the first producer credit for Ate de Jong, as well as the first solo screenplay credit for Edwin de Vries.

Popular Dialogues

"Mrs. Silberschmidt, Chaya's Mother: It's not the luggage he lost in that filthy war, it was himself."

"Chaya Silberschmidt: No cinema, no radio, no theater, no television. Not much fun then."