The Man Who Cried (2000)
Directed by Sally Potter

Film Synopsis

In 1927, Fegele, a small Jewish girl, lives a happy childhood with her father, a choirmaster, and grandmother in a Russian village.  Fegele's father leaves to start a new life in the United States, hoping that his family will follow him, as the Jews become persecuted.  Fegele follows him, but ends up on a boat bound for England.  Renamed Suzie, Fegele is placed in a Catholic home and is taught in a school where she is forbidden from speaking Yiddish.  Ten years later, Fegele leaves for Paris, where she becomes a chorister and meets an ambitious Russian dancer, Lola.  She still dreams that one day she will cross the Atlantic and be reunited with her father in America...