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Saved by Language

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Original Title : Saved by Language
Time : 53 Min
Genre : Documentary
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2015
Director : Bryan Kirschen, Susanna Zaraysky
Writer : No data available
Producer : No data available
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States
Original Language : English, Bosnian
About : Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo (born 1930), who spoke Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, his mother tongue, to ...See moreCan a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo (born 1930), who spoke Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, his mother tongue, to survive the Holocaust. Moris used Ladino to communicate with an Italian Colonel who helped him escape to a Partizan refuge after he ran away from the train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944 he was able to survive and lead the pilot, along with his American and British colleagues, to a safe Partizan airport. See less Read more: Plot summary

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