THE SOLDIER ON SMITHDOWN ROAD
dir. Barney Pell Scholes, Thomas Harnett O'Meara, UK, 2023, 13 min
Liverpool, 1947. Two British soldiers are kidnapped and murdered in Mandate Palestine. In the aftermath of the so-called ‘Sergeants Affair’, a wave of antisemitic riots sweep across the UK. Louis Scholnick, a British-Jewish World War Two veteran, is forced to defend his family’s shop from a violent mob.
2023 UK Jewish Film Festival - Winner of the 2023 Pears Short Film Fund
07-11-2024 18:00, Centrum Kultury Filmowej im. A. Wajdy
Language: English, Yiddish Subtitles: Polish, English
, Array