Left Luggage

Left Luggage — Plot

While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which makes him look obsessed. He keeps checking old maps and keeps digging, trying to find, in fact, those he lost. His daughter Chaya is a beautiful modern girl looking for a part-time job. She finds a place as a nanny in the strictly observant Chassidic family with many children, although her secular manners clearly fly in the face of many commandments. One of the reasons she is accepted is that mother of the family is absolutely overburdened by the household, so she stays despite the resistance of the father, normally - an indisputable authority in the family. She develops a special bond with the youngest of the boys, four-year old Simcha, so far incapable of speaking.

• Release date
• March 30, 1998
• Runtime
• 100 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Jeroen Krabbé

Left Luggage — Cast

Laura Fraser Chaya Silberschmidt

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Adam Monty Simcha Kalman Isabella Rossellini Mrs. Kalman Jeroen Krabbé Mr. Kalman David Bradley Concierge Marianne Sägebrecht Mrs. Silberschmidt Maximilian Schell Mr. Silberschmidt Chaim Topol Yacov Apfelschnitt