The Green Dumpster Mystery
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50m
Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula.
Year: 2018
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Director: Tal Haim Yoffe
Producer: Tal Haim Yoffe
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