
Tickling Leo
Tickling Leo is a 2009 independent drama film about three generations of a Jewish family whose silence about their past has kept them apart. The film was directed by Jeremy Davidson, and stars Lawrence Pressman, Daniel Sauli, Annie Parisse, Eli Wallach, Ronald Guttman and Victoria Clark.
Plot
When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from World War II: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) made to join Rudolph Kasztner's controversial freedom train out of Hungary.
Cast
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author | Jeremy Davidson |
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director | Jeremy Davidson |
genre | drama |
keywords | estranged father freedom train kastner train rudolph kasztner suffer world war ii |
musicBy | Abel Korzeniowski |
producer | Mary Stuart Masterson |