It Will Never Happen Again (aka Unzere Kinder)

68 Minutes, 1948
Genre:
Feature

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Directed by: Natan Gross, Saul Goskind
Cast: Shimen Dzigan, Ysrael Szumacher
Subtitles: English, French, Hebrew

Natan Gross and Saul Goskind’s Yiddish-language film, a tragicomic fiction-documentary hybrid work, follows legendary comic duo, Dzigan and Szumacher, in the days after World War II. At the heart of the film is the pair’s encounter with Holocaust survivors’ bone-chilling testimonies.
During a gig in Warsaw, as the pair perform a skit set in the ghetto, one of the kids in the audience starts booing them and the show is halted. Later, backstage, the boy – along with his friends and their minder – walks in to apologise, explaining that that was not what life was like in the ghetto. The children then share with the two comics some of the actual harrowing stories they’d lived through. Their minder then invites the two revered comedians to go back with them to the Helenowek orphanage where they’re from, to meet the other children and hear more of their stories.
Dzigan and Szumacher embark on a laughter and tear-fuelled journey across postwar Poland, during which they learn all about the horror of the Holocaust that went on there whilst they, themselves, were living through a different kind of hell on the Russian side of the border.

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