AWARDS

JURORS' CHOICE AWARD 1998 Jewish Video Competition, Judah L. Magnes Museum

SELECTED SCREENINGS

Seattle Jewish Film Festival (2004)
Vancouver Jewish Film Festival (2000)
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (1998)

This short documentary chronicles a 90 year old man's emigration to Israel from his native shtetl in Bessabaria. Yakhnis' beautifully photographed film poetically captures the end of a rich Jewish heritage in Russia.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"... each exquisitely-composed shot creates a world of haunting loss, unsurpassed faith and human dignity."
- San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

PURCHASE DVD

HOME USE ONLY $36.00 plus shipping Home Use Only DVD (Not for Classroom/Institutional Use) Does not include Public Performance Rights Home Use Policy (pdf)

INSTITUTIONAL USE $54.00 plus shipping Classroom/Institutional Use Only DVD Does not include Public Performance Rights Institutional Use Policy (pdf)

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The National Center For Jewish Film Brandeis University, Lown 102, MS053, Waltham MA 02454 P: (781) 899 7044, F: (781) 736 2070

Farewell

Russia, 1992, 27 minutes, B&W
Directed by Arkadiy Yakhnis
Russian with English subtitles

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$36 Home Use DVD
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Public Exhibition 35mm, Beta Rental also available