The Soldier on Smithdown Road

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Liverpool, 1947. Two British soldiers are kidnapped and murdered in Mandate Palestine. In the aftermath of the so-called ‘Sergeants Affair’, a wave of antisemitic riots sweep across the UK. Louis Scholnick, a British-Jewish World War Two veteran, is forced to defend his family’s shop from a violent mob.
WHY WE LIKE THIS FILM: Winner of the 2023 Pears Short Film Fund at the UK, this superb drama focuses on a 75 year old subject that could be plucked from today’s headlines.

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DETAILS

YEAR: 2023
RUN TIME: 13 Minutes
LANGUAGE(S): English, Yiddish
SUBTITLES: English subtitles
PREMIERE STATUS: Texas premiere

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CREDITS

DIRECTOR(S):Barney Pell Scholes, Thomas Harnett O’Meara
SCREENWRITER(S):Barney Pell Scholes
CAST:Eddie Toll, Sophie Angelson, Leslie Davidoff, Kitty Martin, Raymond Waring, Mark Rice Oxley, Shaun McGuiness, Alexander Anderson, David Riley

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