Doc filmmaker Gastón Solnicki comes from a boisterous Jewish family that arrived in Argentina soon after the end of WWII.
Grandparents-Janek & Pola-were both Holocaust survivors & father Victor (born in Poland) was an infant when he arrived in Argentina.
Gastón, a member of Argentine Generation #3 begins filming when his own son Mateo is born, then starts to accumulate more footage.
But for us, alas, everything was slapdash.
Click HERE for our FF2 Haiku.(JLH: 2.5/5)
Top Photo: Mateo Solnicki (heir apparent)
Bottom Photo: The extended Solnicki Family
Photo Credits: Gastón Solnicki
The title “Papirosen” is a reference to a very famous Yiddish Holocaust song, a song Victor remembers from his own childhood. Click HERE for the full lyrics.
Click HERE to listen to Cantor Yaakov Lemmer of Manhattan’s Square Synagogue sing “Papirosen” in Yiddish.
The above isn’t my family. And the film took 12 years to be made, it wasn’t rushed.
inform your self before providing false information.
My apologies, Gaston, but I watched “Papirosen” in good faith, and obviously couldn’t make any sense of what was on screen. And given the number of films I see every year on similar subjects, I have many films with which to compare it.
I don’t doubt you when you say you took your time and didn’t rush, but when I used the word “slapdash,” I used it with its Urban Dictionary meaning = “held together with duct-tape, bubble-gum or baling wire.” Since I was unable to find the narrative thread, I must say with regret that I can’t recommend it.