Tickling Leo (2009)
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 WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) made to join Rudolph Kasztner's controversial freedom train out of Hungary.
- Date of release
- 2009-01-01
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Jeremy Davidson
Casting
- Lawrence Pressman — Warren Pikler
- Daniel Sauli — Zak Pikler
- Annie Parisse — Delphina Adams
- Sarah Wikenczy — Young Mother
- Sebastian Wikenczy Thomsen — Child
- Jonathan Valuckas — Reuven Ben Amir
- Ed Setrakian — Oscar Szoras
- Gábor Szücs — Oscar's Grandson
- Orsoja Simon — Woman in Bar
- Alexander Grech III — Bartender
- Grey Rabbit Puett — Young Warren
- Ronald Guttman — Robert Pikler
Interesting facts
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.
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