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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: LF-DVD-57 | Lorber FilmsLanguage: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Series: Alan Berliner collectionPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Lorber HT Digital [distributor], 2009Description: 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

0982426879
9780982426876

Subject(s):

Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.4372 In8L

LOC classification:

E184.37.C38 I57 2009x

NLM classification:

LF-DVD-57

Production credits:

Photographed and edited by Alan Berliner.

Awards:

Awards: World Premiere New York Film Festival ; Winner Distinguished Achievement Award International Documentary Association ; Official Selection Sundance Film Festival

Summary: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-01873 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1605016505X

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.

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

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