Intimate stranger /
Intimate stranger /
, United States
- 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- stamping 4 3/4 in.
- The Alan Berliner collection .
- Alan Berliner collection. .
Full screen. Originally produced in 1991. Bonus features: POV interview with Alan Berliner; French, Spanish, and English subtitles; "Myth in the electric age", a short film by Alan Berliner; "The art of the process" ; a DVD-ROM catalogue.
Photographed and edited by Alan Berliner. Photographed and edited by Alan Berliner.
"You've probably never heard of Joseph Cassuto, but by the end of this film you may think that he was the most elusive, fascinating and baffling man to have ever lived. Cassuto is filmmaker Alan Berliner's maternal grandfather, a Palestinian Jew who was a cotton buyer for the Japanese in Egypt prior to World War II. With Hitler's armies just miles away from Alexandria, Cassuto's family is split in half. They reunite in New York after the war, but Cassuto is restless there. He moves to Japan to spend eleven months of the year, virtually abandoning his wife and children in the U.S. while he pursues his business interests and a life-long love affair with Japanese culture. Seventeen years after his death, his grandson has constructed a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather's life story. What emerges is a curious legacy -- admiration and love from Cassuto's Japanese business associates; resentment from his family. Depending on who you ask, Cassuto was either a romantic adventurer or a shirker of family responsibility; a man at the center of historic events or a nobody."--Director's Website.
DVD, NTSC.
In English with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.
Awards: World Premiere New York Film Festival ; Winner Distinguished Achievement Award International Documentary Association ; Official Selection Sundance Film Festival
0982426879 9780982426876
705105267319 705105268118
LF-DVD-57 Lorber Films
Cassuto, Joseph, 1902-1974.
Cassuto, Joseph, 1902-1974.
Jews--Egypt--Biography.
Cotton trade--History.--Japan
Cotton trade.
Jews.
Egypt.
Japan.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Feature films--United States.
Biographical films.
Biographies.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Biographical films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Documentaires.
Films biographiques.
Films pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Films autres que de fiction.
E184.37.C38 / I57 2009x
791.4372 / In8L
LF-DVD-57 / Lorber Films
Full screen. Originally produced in 1991. Bonus features: POV interview with Alan Berliner; French, Spanish, and English subtitles; "Myth in the electric age", a short film by Alan Berliner; "The art of the process" ; a DVD-ROM catalogue.
Photographed and edited by Alan Berliner. Photographed and edited by Alan Berliner.
"You've probably never heard of Joseph Cassuto, but by the end of this film you may think that he was the most elusive, fascinating and baffling man to have ever lived. Cassuto is filmmaker Alan Berliner's maternal grandfather, a Palestinian Jew who was a cotton buyer for the Japanese in Egypt prior to World War II. With Hitler's armies just miles away from Alexandria, Cassuto's family is split in half. They reunite in New York after the war, but Cassuto is restless there. He moves to Japan to spend eleven months of the year, virtually abandoning his wife and children in the U.S. while he pursues his business interests and a life-long love affair with Japanese culture. Seventeen years after his death, his grandson has constructed a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather's life story. What emerges is a curious legacy -- admiration and love from Cassuto's Japanese business associates; resentment from his family. Depending on who you ask, Cassuto was either a romantic adventurer or a shirker of family responsibility; a man at the center of historic events or a nobody."--Director's Website.
DVD, NTSC.
In English with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.
Awards: World Premiere New York Film Festival ; Winner Distinguished Achievement Award International Documentary Association ; Official Selection Sundance Film Festival
0982426879 9780982426876
705105267319 705105268118
LF-DVD-57 Lorber Films
Cassuto, Joseph, 1902-1974.
Cassuto, Joseph, 1902-1974.
Jews--Egypt--Biography.
Cotton trade--History.--Japan
Cotton trade.
Jews.
Egypt.
Japan.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Feature films--United States.
Biographical films.
Biographies.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Biographical films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Documentaires.
Films biographiques.
Films pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Films autres que de fiction.
E184.37.C38 / I57 2009x
791.4372 / In8L
LF-DVD-57 / Lorber Films
