A Jewish wedding cameraman falls in love with a klezmer clarinetist and pretends to be making a documentary in order to spend time with her. His fake project leads to a real journey through Eastern Europe in search of lost klezmer melodies and the remnants of Yiddish culture. A documentary-fiction hybrid. Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Cast: Leandro Koch, Paloma Schachmann, Perla Sneh
The Klezmer Project
A Jewish wedding cameraman falls in love with a klezmer clarinetist and pretends to be making a documentary in order to spend time with her. His fake project leads to a real journey through Eastern Europe in search of lost klezmer melodies and the remnants of Yiddish culture. A documentary-fiction hybrid. Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Paloma Schachmann, Leandro Koch
- Producers
- Leandro Koch, Yael Svoboda, Paloma Schachmann, Lukas V. Rinner
- Cast
- Leandro Koch, Paloma Schachmann, Perla Sneh, ,
