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Nesjomme (2024)

Name: Nesjomme
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-01-25T09:15:04+01:00
Rating: 3.53

Documentary | 88 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 88 minuten

Alternative title: Neshoma

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Sandra Beerends

IMDb score: 7,9 (114)

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Nesjomme plot

Soul, feeling, involvement, says the dictionary about the meaning of the Yiddish word nesjomme. Sandra Beerends' film is about the soul of pre-war Jewish Amsterdam. Numerous fragments from (archive) films are connected by the fictional character of Rusha, a Jewish Elckerlyc from the interbellum, constructed from testimonies of contemporaries and survivors of the Holocaust. In letters, which she also uses to play correspondence chess, she tells her brother Max, who has left for the Indies, about her life, her misjpooche (family) and her city.

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mrklm

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25 January at 09:15

Beerends tells the story of the Jewish community in Amsterdam from 1917 to 1942 based on the fictional Rusha [Rifka Lodeizen] using letters for her brother Max [David Lucieer] who emigrated to the Dutch East Indies. She combines this with archive footage that matches the content of those letters. Lodeizen's dry, indifferent voice makes it difficult to empathize with Rusha, and she is often drowned out by the clumsy sound editing that leaves nothing to the imagination. Well written, but the voice direction and sound editing are substandard.