Ivan and Abraham Movie Review 1994

Abraham (Alexandrovitch) is a nine-year-old Jewish boy, living on a shetl in 1930s eastern Poland, with his best friend being the family's 14-year-old Christian apprentice Ivan (Iakovlev). The boys sense the increasing family tensions and escape into the nearby forest, only to find politics and prejudice sweeping over them all. In Yiddish, Russian, Polish, and Romany, with English subtitles.

Distribution

New Yorker Video, 16 W. 61st St., 11th Fl., New York, NY 10023, Phone: (212)645-4600, Toll-free: 800-447-0196, Fax: (212)645-3030, Email: info@newyorkerfilms.com, URL: http://www.newyorkerfilms.com

Available on VHS
Running time 105 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Buddies, Judaism, Family Ties, Period Piece: 1930s

Screenplay

Yolande Zauberman

Cast

Roma Aleksandrovitch, Sacha Iakovlev, Vladimir Machkov, Maria Lipkina, Rolan Bykov, Daniel Olbrychski

Cinematography

Jean-Marc Fabre

Director

Yolande Zauberman

Producer

Rene Cleitman, Jean-Luc Ormieres, Bernard Bouix, New Yorker Films