A Kid for Two Farthings (film)

A Kid For Two Farthings is a 1955 film, directed by Carol Reed. The screenplay was adapted by Wolf Mankowitz from his own novel of the same name. The film presumably gets its name from an Aramaic song traditionally sung after the Passover Seder, Chad Gadya A Lone Kid, in which a kid bought for two small coins, zuzim in the original, stands in for the Children of Israel.

The film has a haunting last image, of Kandinsky carrying the tiny body of the unicorn to the graveyard, whilst passing in the opposite direction is a Torahreading Rabbi pushing a horn gramophone, a character that appears in the background several times during the film.Critically, this was one of Carol Reeds least successful films, however the rich ensemble cast, and the interweaving of harsh reality and fantasy remain a potent mix. The character of Kandinsky in particular is seen to embody the plight of surviving European Jews ten years after the Second World War. His mythologizing about a race of unicorns with magic powers that were destroyed everywhere but may still exist in some faroff country, can be seen as analogous to the Holocaust. ........

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