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Jewish Jurmala - Jewrmala

About documentary Jewish Jurmala – Jewrmala:

They wanted to eliminate us
but they failed -
let’s eat come alive!

Jewish Jurmala — documentary on the Jewish life’s history inJurmala.

Starting from the 19th century Jurmala Jewry had developed and prospered with its culmination - the ribbon-cutting opening of the large Maiori-Dzintari synagogue in 1939.

One cannot even imagine, but very soon Latvian Jewry will head the sad list of Holocaust with its lowest surviving rate among the other European Jewish communities.

For almost 80 years this story has seemed to be abridged.

However, in 2018 in Buldury (Jurmala’s district) the small family synagogue Beth Israel has opened its doors in a private home and by the private initiative. With the Rabbi’s arrival the traditional Jewish life has started - rampantly, flashy, spectacularly, and delightedly – with everything like in the old days.

Well, with almost everything…

  • Elvira Mogilevskaya
    Director
    “The makings of living drugs”2022, "Tair Salakhov. All the colors of the world" 2021, "Repin. You can’t get away from yourself” 2019, “Pictures of the life of Igor Grabar” 2017, “The World of Piranesi” 2016, “Legends of Music” 2015, “Legends of Sports” 2015, "Watchmaker" 2015, "Interactive Masterpieces" 2015
  • Sergey Vinogradov (Glikman)
    Director
  • Zinaida Kutnovsky Liak
    Writer
  • Elvira Mogilevskaya
    Writer
  • Zinaida Kutnovsky Liak
    Producer
  • Shimon Kutnovsky Liak
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Юрмала еврейская: Jewrmala
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    45 minutes 35 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 1, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    8,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Latvia
  • Country of Filming:
    Latvia
  • Language:
    English, Russian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • privet premiere
    Jurmala
    Latvia
    July 31, 2022
    Latvian premiere
Director Biography - Elvira Mogilevskaya, Sergey Vinogradov (Glikman)

Elvira Mogilevskaya was born in 1984. She has been working on
television since 2002.
Ph.D, journalist, screenwriter, lector. Chief editor of the cyclic TV
program "Collection" on the TV channel "Russia-Culture", author of
more than a hundred documentaries, including: “The makings of living
drugs”2022, "Tair Salakhov. All the colors of the world" 2021, "Repin.
You can’t get away from yourself” 2019, “Pictures of the life of Igor
Grabar” 2017, “The World of Piranesi” 2016, “Legends of Music” 2015,
“Legends of Sports” 2015, "Watchmaker" 2015, "Interactive
Masterpieces" 2015, etc.
Author of more than a hundred documentaries, including: “The makings of living
drugs”2022, "Tair Salakhov. All the colors of the world" 2021, "Repin.
You can’t get away from yourself” 2019, “Pictures of the life of Igor
Grabar” 2017, “The World of Piranesi” 2016, “Legends of Music” 2015,
“Legends of Sports” 2015, "Watchmaker" 2015, "Interactive
Masterpieces" 2015, etc.

Sergei Vinogradov was born in 1956. He graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School. He has been working on television since 1982, participated in the creation of several hundred popular science programs, feature films and documentaries, including those that received the TEFI and Laurel Branch awards.

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