Saved by Language
2015, English. Directed by Bryan Kirschen & Susanna Zaraysky.
Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo (born 1930), who spoke Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, his mother tongue, to survive the Holocaust. Moris used Ladino to communicate with an Italian Colonel who helped him escape to a Partizan refuge after he ran away from the train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944 he was able to survive and lead the pilot, along with his American and British colleagues, to a safe Partizan airport.
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- 0h 53m
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- English
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- Released
- 15 January 2015
- Country
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, United States of America
- Written by
- Bryan Kirschen, Susanna Zaraysky
- Budget
- $15K
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Saved by Language runs 53 minutes (0h 53m).
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Saved by Language isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 15 January 2015. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed Saved by Language?
Saved by Language (2015) was directed by Bryan Kirschen and Susanna Zaraysky and stars Moris Albahari, Ester Kaveson Debevec, Jacob Finci.