Left Luggage

Left Luggage (1998) is a drama film directed by Jeroen Krabbé rated 6.3/10.

While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which makes him look obsessed. He keeps checking old maps and keeps digging, trying to find, in fact, those he lost. His daughter Chaya is a beautiful modern girl looking for a part-time job. She finds a place as a nanny in the strictly observant Chassidic family with many children, although her secular manners clearly fly in the face of many commandments. One of the reasons she is accepted is that mother of the family is absolutely overburdened by the household, so she stays despite the resistance of the father, normally - an indisputable authority in the family. She develops a special bond with the youngest of the boys, four-year old Simcha, so far incapable of speaking.

Cast

Laura Fraser

Chaya Silberschmidt

Adam Monty

Simcha Kalman

Isabella Rossellini

Mrs. Kalman

Jeroen Krabbé

Mr. Kalman

David Bradley

Concierge

Marianne Sägebrecht

Mrs. Silberschmidt

Maximilian Schell

Mr. Silberschmidt

Chaim Topol

Yacov Apfelschnitt

Heather Weeks

Sofie

Lex Goudsmit

Men. Goldman

Miriam Margolyes

Mrs. Goldman