Tailor from Brooklyn

A hushed, claustrophobic chamber piece where a quiet conversation slowly tightens into a moral pressure cooker.

Directed by

Evgeny Serov

Genres

Drama

Starring

Yuriy Vaksman, Sergey Puskepalis, Sergey Genkin

Overview

America in the early 70s. Russian immigrant tailor Avdon Moskovitz, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust and lost his wife and two young children, decides to cheat the insurance company to help his eldest son, whom he sent to his uncle in New York before the war. One day, a stranger in black shows up on the doorstep of Moskowitz's workshop. Identifying himself as an insurance company agent, he asks the tailor to answer a few questions. Soon a simple interview turns into a real interrogation.

How it feels

Tense, melancholic, dark and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Grief, guilt, deception, survival

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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