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Caravan 841 (2001)

Caravan 841 poster
Genre
drama film
Country
Israel

How it feels

A young Ethiopian Jewish boy named Moshe is sent to Israel alone to escape war in his homeland. He faces a series of disappointments while waiting for his mother to join him. A strict rabbi and a saxophone-playing nightclub owner help him cope.

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What happens

Caravan 841 is a 2001 Israeli film made by Zion Rubin that follows Moshe, a little Jewish boy from Ethiopia who was sent to Israel to escape from his war-torn homeland. While Moshe waits for his mother to meet him in Israel, life gives him one disappointment after the other, but he works through them with the help of a strict Rabbi and a saxophone player who owns a night club. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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