MJFF Presents: The Train

A meeting with a Holocaust survivor (Eli Wallach in his final onscreen performance) teaches a self-consumed young man that life can change in a heartbeat.

Directed by Asher Grodman
USA | 10 minutes | 2015

This short film premiered at the 19th annual Miami Jewish Film Festival and is part of MJFF's short film showcase streaming program, MJFF Presents. To discover more great short films each month, join the MJFF YouTube channel by clicking the red SUBSCRIBE button above.

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[Diana-whathappenedin]

I cried. My great grandfather was in the battle for Moscow. One of the most famous ones. And then he was ready to go home to Kazakhstan, but Chinese-Japanese conflict was happening and Soviet Union sent all the Asians they could collect to that side. At some point he realized that they are near north Kazakhstan and he slipped the message “I’m alive. “Name and address” and asked a kid to throw it into mailbox. And he did. That’s one of my grandmas happiest memories. When they received that letter