Tag #125489 - Interview #78561 (Sofi Eshua Danon-Moshe)

I remember the cinema very well: Charlie Chaplin, Krachoun and Malcho, ‘Tarzan.’ [Krachoun and Malcho were the Danish predecessors of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The actors’ real names were Harald MADSEN and Carl SCHENSTRØM. In Europe they were known as Pat and Patachon, in Bulgaria as Krachoun and Malcho (lit. the tall one and the short one).] My mother liked the cinema very much, too, and when she met her friends she would ask them, ‘Have you seen that movie? Is there ‘gorchichka’ in it?’ ‘Gorchichka’ means a sentimental element, for example, a poor miserable girl who can’t meet her love or something like that, something like the modern serial films [soap operas] from Latin America. I remember that during the Holocaust and a little before that we boycotted the German movies. We didn't go to see them; not a single young man went to see them.