| Shulamit Adar, Liliane Rovere, Esther
Gorintin , Nathan Cogan, Moscu Alcalay, Maurice Chevit
Three older Jewish women deal with issues
in their families and the long shadow of the Holocaust in this episodic
drama. In the film's first segment, Rivka (Shulamit Adar) is on
a bus tour of Poland with her husband and is accidentally left behind
after a stop at a cemetery. She is furious with her husband, who
didn't notice that she was missing; she's felt neglected by him
for years, but she doesn't have the strength to leave him. The second
story moves to Paris, where Regine (Liliane Rovere) receives startling
news: her father, who supposedly died in a concentration camp during
World War II, is actually alive in Lithuania. When she arrives in
Lithuania, she's startled by the sight of her father, a very old
man who doesn't quite recognize her, as well as his story: after
the liberation of his camp, he made his way on foot and ended up
behind the Iron Curtain, from where he was unable to return to Europe.
In the final story, Vera (Esther Gorintin) and her neighbors travels
from Moscow to Tel Aviv, hoping to visit a cousin who is now in
a rest home. She eventually gets lost and is befriended by Rivka,
from the first episode. Voyages is the directorial debut for Emmanuel
Finkiel, who previously worked as an assistant director for Krzysztof
Kieslowski and made a short film that won a C้sar award in France.
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