Samy Szlingerbaum (1950–1986) was a Belgian screenwriter, actor and film director. Szlingerbaum began his career as a director by co-directing the 1973 film ''Le 15/8'' with

Chantal Akerman Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles'' ...

. Then in 1980 he wrote and directed ''Brussels Transit'', a feature film in Yiddish which tells of his parents moving to

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

and making their life there after World War II. The film starred

Hélène Lapiower Helene or Hélène may refer to: People * Helene (given name), a Greek feminine given name *Helen of Troy, the daughter of Zeus and Leda *Helene, a figure in Greek mythology who was a friend of Aphrodite and helped her seduce Adonis *Helene (A ...

and

Boris Lehman Boris Lehman (born 3 March 1944, Lausanne), is a Belgian author-filmmaker of experimental cinema. Lehman initially studied piano, but in the early 1960s became interested in photography and cinema. In 1966, after graduating in Film Studies from ...

Prizes

* ''Brussels Transit'': (Rotterdam 81: Prix de la presse; Berlin 81: Prix de l'OCIC).

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