Overview - 40 Nickels

Overview

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?

Cast

• Name: Grayson Taylor

  Character: Norm

  Popularity: 0.5941

  

• Name: Carole Foreman

  Character: Bubbe

  Popularity: 0.0878

  

• Name: Te'ena Klein

  Character: Ethel

  Popularity: 0.0855

  

• Name: Leo Grinberg

  Character: Itzik

  Popularity: 0.1155

  

• Name: Catherine Ashmore Bradley

  Character: Sarah

  Popularity: 1.4382

  

• Name: Kathleen Bernhard

  Character: Street Person

  Popularity: 0.0168

  

• Name: Andy Boxold

  Character: School Boy

  Popularity: 0.0922

  

• Name: Aubin Bradley

  Character: Sarah's Sister

  Popularity: 0.8389