Director : Emmanuel FinkielActors : Liliane Rovère, Schulamit Adar, Esther Gorintin, Nathan Cogan, Moscou Alcalay, Maurice Chevit, Freddy Earle Feature film, Fiction Production language : French, Hebrew Nationality : Majority French (Poland, Belgium) French release : 9/22/99 Runtime : 1h 55mn Current status : Released Associate production company : Les Films du Poisson Co-production : StudioCanal, Héritage Films, Canal+ Polska, Paradise Films, Arte France CinémaFrench distribution : MK2Film export/Foreign Sales : MK2 Synopsis Riwka is 65. The tourist bus she's on breaks down between Warsaw and Auschwitz. Anxiety mounts alarmingly in the racket of Yiddish conversation that follows. Regine, also 65, believes she's found her elderly father who's traveling across Europe to get to Paris. Vera, an 80-year-old Russian woman at the end of her life and alone in the world, has just immigrated to Israel. She's looking for the cousin she hasn't seen for many years. Alone, she hops on bus after bus. Everything is foreign to her, she gets totally lost, is on the verge of collapse. Then, finally in the last bus, purely by chance, she meets Riwka… Festival selections Awards > Cesar Awards - French film industry awards - 2000 :
- Best First Film
> Florence - - 1999 :
- Award for Best First Film | 
