Dan Alexe, a Romanian who lives in Belgium and speaks a whole whack of languages – he can rattle off about ten if you ask him – and he taught himself Farsi to make this film. “It's an easy language,” he said. We almost didn't get to see this film. The film and Alexe's equipment were stolen (in Prague, not in Afghanistan) so he made the whole film AGAIN! (Relating this incident to Isaac, Alexe says, “I got very depressed. I started drinking.” “Oh!,” Isaac replies, “Did you bring me a bottle?”)
This is the story of the last two Jews in Afghanistan. All the other Jews have left a long time ago. Isaac and Zabulon live alone in the abandoned synagogue…
For the past ten years, Zabulon and Isaac, the two remaining Jews in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, have been living in the courtyard of Kabul’s old synagogue. The elderly…