Intimate stranger [videorecording] / a film by Alan Berliner ; produced, directed, photographed and edited by Alan Berliner.
2009
E184.37.C38 I58 2009
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Title
Intimate stranger [videorecording] / a film by Alan Berliner ; produced, directed, photographed and edited by Alan Berliner.
ISBN
0982426879
9780982426876
9780982426876
Publication Details
New York, N.Y. : Lorber HT Digital [distributor], 2009.
Language
English
Language Note
In English with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.
Description
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Item Number
705105267319
705105268118
705105268118
Call Number
E184.37.C38 I58 2009
Distributor No.
LF-DVD-57 Lorber Films
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.
Note
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.
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.
Credits
Photographed and edited by Alan Berliner.
System Details Note
DVD, NTSC.
Added Author
Berliner, Alan.
Added Corporate Author
Lorber HT Digital.
Series
Alan Berliner collection.
Includes
Myth in the electric age.
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