CARPATI: 50 MILES, 50 YEARS is a testament to the strength of both the Jews and Gypsies, who call the Carpathian Mountains home. In 1931 the Carpathian Mountains were the home of over a quarter of a millions of Jews. Sixty-five years later, emigration, the Holocaust and political turmoil have left less than 1,500. Through Zev Godinger (son of Shimon, survivor of Auschwitz, Jewish community caretaker, grave digger and ice cream vendor) director Yale Strom (The Last Klezmer) affectionately chronicles the decay of a beautiful culture preserved by the faith and fare of its lone survivors.

"I had my bris in the Austo-Hungarian Empire, my bar mitzvah in Czechoslovakia, my divorce in the Soviet Union and I'll be buried in the Ukraine, but I never left my hometown."
_ZEV GODINER