Reuven Goldfarb playing the role of a fictitious friend (The Grandfather) of Nicky Imber, with whom he was incarcerated in Dacahu during the war, whom he contacts many years later. plays the grand-daughter of Reuven Goldfarb. After the camps were liberated and the war ended, Goldfarb and Imber lost touch with each other. In the meantime, Imber had become a world-famous sculptor, whose most important work was inspired by the Torah and the Shoah. In the film, Imber has found Reuven’s address and sends him a small bronze sculpture, “The Wandering Jew,” a sample of his larger than life statues, now on display in a park in Karmiel. Reuven’s granddaughter, played by Talya Bem, is visiting Reuven when the statue arrives and is curious about it. Reuven responds to her questions by explaining his relationship to Nicky and the nature of their common experiences. The rest of the film consists of another actor, David Halfon, reading the letter that Nicky sent to Reuven with the statue, a voice-over accompanied by a shifting sequence of WWII-era photos.
Scenes of the movie was filmed in the home of Yehudit and Reuven Goldfarb in Tzfat, Israel
Nicky Imber working on a head of a sculpture
The film was written and directed by David Frasier.
