The Tango of Rashevski

the Tango of Rashevski is a Franco-Belgian film carried out by Sam Garbarski, left in 2003.

Synopsis

The Rashevski family is a Jewish family Ashkénaze which hardly practices, but when the Rosa grandmother dies, its family makes it bury by a Rabbin, because Rosa took a fall into the Jewish square of the cemetery. But what to be Jewish, and between that or that which one likes and its roots must one slice? It is what will have to wonder all the characters, taken between their family history, their report/ratio with the Judaism and their loves.

Through his characters, as a not-Jew which converts by love or a young Jew which loves an Arab, the film approaches various ways of living his judeity, of the orthodoxe rabbi to the old seducer who will speak about the camps only to the article of death. The whole on bottom of music and Tango, the music which bandages the wounds at Rashevski. In the passing, the film presents the liberal Judaïsme and the orthodoxe Judaïsme, the festival of Pessa' H and the traces of the Shoah in the memory of a family, not without humor.

Data sheet

Title: the Tango of Rashevski
Realization: Sam Garbarski
Scenario: Philippe Blasband on an idea of Sam Garbarski
Languages: French, a little Hebrew English, and Yiddish
Country of origin: France, Belgium
Format: Colors
Kind: Dramatic comedy
Lasted: 96 minutes
Coming out date: 2003

Distribution

Nathan Cogan : Dolfo
Hippolyte Girardot: Antoine
Ludmila Mikaël: Isabelle, the woman of Simon
Michel Jonasz: Simon Rashevski
Daniel Mesguich: David Rashevski
Jonathan Zaccaï: Jonathan Rashevski, the son of Simon
Tania Garbarski: Nina Rashevski, the girl of Simon
Rudi Rosenberg: Ric Rashevski, the son of David
Selma Kouchy: Khadija, the friend of Ric
Moscu Alcalay: Shmouel, the father of Simon and David
Laurence Masliah: Rosa

Around film

the film contains several expressions in Yiddish, like Lèh' ayim (equivalent of “with your health”), mènsh (“man of good”, “right man”) or schvartze (literally “Black”, racist term here).

Its realizer Sam Garbarski, who with the scenario writer took as a starting point the history of their own families, explains: “I tell simply the history of a family that I know well and that we imagined on the basis of our respective lives. Me, I believe that one can be Jewish by eating bubble with kneidele, latkes and salted gherkins, without practicing the religion, and it is a form of Judaism related to the traditions. I believe that the traditions are stronger than the religions. ”

Tania Garbarski, which plays the part of Nina, the girl of Michel Jonasz and Ludmila Mikaël in film, is the girl of the realizer.

the sequences in Israel in fact were turned to Morocco, the European sequences with Liege.

External bonds

Card IMDB
Interview of Sam Garbarski on the film

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