Salonique, ville du silence (Motion picture)

Salonika, city of silence [videorecording] / NEMO Films presents a film by Maurice Amaraggi.

Bruxelles : NEMO in coproduction with Wallonie Image Production and the support of Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah ; Jerusalem : Ruth Diskin, distributor, 2006.

1 DVD (53 min.) : sd., col. with b&w footage ; 4 3/4 in.

Maurice Amaraggi takes us on a personal tour of the modern port city, which for centuries was a cosmopolitan Jewish center. A great fire in 1917 almost leveled Salonika, and its Sephardic community was destroyed in the Holocaust. Amaraggi interviews survivors and other residents. In the 21st century, few remember the Ladino language; school children must be taught that their city was once Jewish; and Harry Potter replaces French literature in the bookstore. Includes footage from the 1938 film "Carmen, la de Triana."

Images / Video & Film

English

December 18, 2006

Produced by Maurice Amaraggi ; director of photography, Michel Baudour ; sound recordists, Philippe Vandendriessche, Vangelis Zelkas ; grips, Panayotis Topalidis, Tryfon Vrakas ; editor, Gervaise Demeure ; assistant editor, Sévérine Cava ; original music, Maurice Amaraggi ; cello, François Deppe ; Sephardic songs, David Saltiel ; production manager, Cathy Lespiaucq ; production assistant, Françoise Lerusse.

Narrated by Maurice Amaraggi ; historian Rena Molho, city planning professor Alexandra Yerolympos, museum founder André Sefiha, and others.