Stand Up for Your Friends

Jan 1, 2014

0h 5m

★ 0.0

Show your support for your Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender friends

Overview

An Irish anti-homophobic and transphobic bullying advertisement, created as part of BeLonG To Youth Services annual Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Crossing the Line

BeLonG To Youth Services

Stand Up for Your Friends Trailers

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Cast

Lead

Irene Milton

Bully 1

Caoimhe Coburn-Gray

Bully 2

Ghaliah Conroy

Bully 3

Donna Reilly-Parrish

Stand Up Friend 1

Liza Pasynkova

Stand Up Friend 2

Cian Mulhall

Friendly Popular Girl

LuLu Coyne

In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her saying "love of my life", she would follow him or her without any question. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Misha is delivered to a German family and the abusive matriarch gives a bad treatment to the girl. However, she finds support in the family of Ernest and his deranged wife Marthe that supplies groceries to foster family. Misha loves Ernest's dogs and the old man gives a compass to her and tells that her parents have been sent to East to forced labor. When the old couple is denounced for sheltering the girl and arrested by the Germans, Misha flees through the woods heading east. Along her journey seeking out her parents...

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