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Pacific Jewish Film Festival at the Merage JCC -A Gift to Stalin

Presented by Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County at Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County

October 17, 2010

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Pacific Jewish Film Festival at the Merage JCC -A Gift to Stalin

Drama, 2008, 97 minutes.
Language: Russian, Kazakh, Hebrew with English Subtitles.

First prize Belgrade International Film Festival, Serbia, 2009
First prize International Film Festival “The East and the West Classics and Avant-Guard”, Russia, 2008

Set in Kazakhstan in 1949, during a time when minorities were forced to move to central Asia by the former Soviet government. A Jewish kid named Sashka is on a train with his grandfather, being deported with others. His grandfather dies on the train and he has to get off with the body at a small village. He meets a Muslim old man, Kasym, and stays with him. Kasym takes the boy to a local shaman who restores the child's strength and renames him Sabyr (meaning "humble"); Kasym and Sabyr then move to a dusty village where the boy comes of age. As Sashka makes friends with wild-eyed local kids who live to play pranks on others, he sees a newspaper story about a nationwide contest to find the perfect birthday present for Joseph Stalin, and the boy wracks his brain to come up with the winning entry and get the special prize, a meeting with the Soviet leader.

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    Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County

    One Federation Way, Suite 200
    Irvine, CA 92603

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    $9 JCC Members, $12 Public $12 at the door.
    
    *Festival Pass $48 JCC Members, $66 Public
    
    Festival pass holders receive free popcorn at each movie and get voting rights for the “Audience Award Winner”

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    October 17, 2010

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    7:00 pm

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