Grigori GRICHER-CHERIKOVER
Григорий ГРИЧЕР-ЧЕРИКОВЕР
Grigori GRITCHER-TCHERIKOVER
USSR, 1928, 89mn 
Black and white, silent, fiction
Through Tears / Laughter Through Tears
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Сквозь слезы

 

 A travers les larmes

 Skvoz slyozy

Other titles : Страницы прошлого
 
Directed by : Grigori GRICHER-CHERIKOVER (Григорий ГРИЧЕР-ЧЕРИКОВЕР)
Writing credits : Grigori GRICHER-CHERIKOVER (Григорий ГРИЧЕР-ЧЕРИКОВЕР), I. SKVIRSKY (И. СКВИРСКИЙ)
Cinematography : N. FARKASH (Н. ФАРКАШ), Friedrich VERIGO-DAROVSKY (Фридрих ВЕРИГО-ДАРОВСКИЙ)
Production design : Iosif SHPINEL (Иосиф ШПИНЕЛЬ)
Production : VUKFU (Odessa)
Release date in Russia : 02/04/1928
 

Plot synopsis
Adaptation of several stories by Sholem Aleikhem whose heroes are Jews from the shtetls of the "settlement zone", subject to numerous restrictions under the tsarist regime. The adaptation denounces the anti-Semitism of police officers, who associate Jews with the waves of protests at the beginning of the century.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Kinojudaïca at the Shoah Memorial in Paris, Paris (France), 2009

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