53m •
2015
Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo (born 1930), who spoke Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, his mother tongue, to survive the Holocaust. Moris used Ladino to communicate with an Italian Colonel who helped him escape to a Partizan refuge after he ran away from the train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944 he was able to survive and lead the pilot, along with his American and British colleagues, to a safe Partizan airport.
2001•
5.0
2019•
8.2
2019•
7.3
2020•
7.0
1945•
0
2015•
0
2014•
2.0
1942•
0
1959•
8.2
2015•
8.0
1996•
0
2016•
0
1999•
0
Saved by Language Productions • US
Budget: $15000
Revenue: $0
