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Joe's Violin (2016)

Joe's Violin poster
Directed by
Kahane Cooperman
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
24 min
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 19 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Polish Holocaust survivor donates his 70-year-old violin to a local instrument drive. A young girl from the Bronx receives it and begins to play.

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What happens

Joe's Violin is a 2016 American short documentary film directed by Kahane Cooperman, and produced by Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen, that follows a moment in the life of a Polish survivor of the Holocaust from the time he decides to drop off his 70-year-old violin during a local instrument drive through the violin's acquisition by a new owner, a 12-year-old girl from the Bronx, and recounts how the experience changes both their lives. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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