Characters & Themes
The Paper Bridge (1987) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1987 · 95 mins · German
- Directed by
- Ruth Beckermann
- Starring
- Robert Schindel, Willi Stern, Salo Beckermann, Herbert Gropper, Betty Beckermann, Rabbi Wassermann
Beckermann’s parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust. By tracing her family’s pre‑World II migratory routes, she journeys back to the European Jewish towns and neighborhoods that shaped the tales of her youth, reconnecting with the cultural landscape, archives and oral histories that preserve that lost world.
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