INSIDE HANA’S SUITCASE
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Inside Hana’s Suitcase is the story of what happened to two Jewish children when the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939. It is also the story of some contemporary Japanese children, and how their teacher helped them solve the mystery of Hana Brady whose name was painted on a battered suitcase from Auschwitz. There were no clues as to Hana’s identity or what might have happened to her but the students kept asking: “Who was Hana? Where did she live? What happened to her?” Their teacher, Fumiko Ishioka, knew she had to find out, both for her students and for herself. Inside Hana’s Suitcase is a documentary journey full of mystery and memories, brought to life through the perspectives of Fumiko, Hana’s brother, George, and Hana herself.
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Larry Weinstein
Director
Larry Weinstein is Canada’s pre-eminent director of music films. His most recent film, Mozartballs, released in 2006, is a television documentary about the great composer’s legacy in our crazy modern times. Burnt Toast, produced in 2005, is a collection of eight short comic operas about love. He has won numerous International Emmy and Gemini Awards, and an Oscar nomination in 1985 for Making Overtures – The Story of a Community Orchestra. In 1998, Solidarity Song: The Hanns Eisler Story won the Louvre's Classique en Images award as the best film on the arts over a three-year span. Inside Hana’s Suitcase is Weinstein’s first feature documentary.
Digital Betacam
High definition
75 minutes
Colour
Aspect ratio
16:9
Original version in English, Czech, Japanese and German
Subtitled in English
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Producers
Larry Weinstein
Jessica Daniel
Director
Larry Weinstein
Scriptwriter
Thomas Wallner
Directors of Photography
Horst Ziedler
Chris Romeike
Editor
David New
Sound
Jason Milligan
Sanjay Mehta
With
George Brady
Fumiko Ishioka
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Production
Rhombus Media Inc.
99 Spadina Ave.
Suite 600
Toronto Ontario
M5V 3P8
Canada
(416) 971-7856
(416) 971-9647
info@rhombusmedia.com
www.rhombusmedia.com
Coproduction – Czech Republic
In Film Praha spol. s.r.o
Machova
Prague
2 120 00
Czech Republic
420 222 515 424
420 222 510 613
biermann@infilm.cz
Distribution – Canada
Christal Films
1217, rue Notre-Dame Est
Montreal Quebec
H2L 2R3
Canada
(514) 336-9696
(514) 336-0607
info@christalfilms.com
www.christalfilms.com
International distribution
Rhombus International Inc.
99 Spadina Ave.
Suite 600
Toronto Ontario
M5V 3P8
Canada
(416) 971-7856
(416) 971-9647
rhombus@rhombusmedia.com
www.rhombusmedia.com
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