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Divan follows the filmmaker’s effort to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heir loom - a couch. The filmmaker journeys from her birthplace, Brooklyn’s Hasidic community, to its origins in Hungary and back. The couch - considered holy because certain Hasidic rabbis had slept on it - survived WWII and is in the filmmaker’s great grandfather’s house in Rohod, a northeast Hungarian town. In the tradition of storytelling, the filmmaker creates a visual parable about the Hasidic community that she left as a teenager. She trails the couch through a quirky landscape populated by Hasidim in Brooklyn, Holocaust survivors and ex-communists in Hungary, and, finally, the next generation of formerly-Hasidic Jews on the margins of their communities in New York and Israel. |
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| Ratings: | IMDB: 7.0/10 | |
| Released: | May 1, 2003 | |
| Runtime: | 90 min | |
| Genres: | Documentary | |
| Cast: | Pearl Gluck Amichai Lau Lavie Basya Schechter Giti Koenig | |
| Crew: | Pearl Gluck Susan Korda | |
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Incessant Chatter : I live in the real Beacon, NY this is set there, but actually filmed in Canada
Incessant Chatter : I live in the real Beacon, NY this is set there, but actually filmed in Canada
greyfur : I might can do that, esp. with the coffee, and how about Domninoes?