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kobvindex_ZLB14930639
Format:
1 DVD-Video (ca. 183 Min.) + 1 CD
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Tonformat: stereo
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1 Beih.
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Bildformat: 4:3 ; 1:1.66
Content:
Richard Copans, during a long dental therapy realized a documentary "Racines" (Roots) about his roots (teeth and family). (Unifrance)
Content:
Richard Copans's Racines (Roots) examines the nature of identity, migration, transplantation, and reconstructed history. A routine trip to the dentist provides the point of departure for the filmmaker, as they discuss implants as a way of recreating permanent teeth through artificial roots. For Copans, the analogy proves salient. The son of Simon Copans, an American expatriate and Voice of America jazz radio personality (as well as a communist sympathizer who emigrated to France during the Red Scare to avoid political persecution), his knowledge of his paternal family history had been limited to familiar stories of turn of the century immigrants from old Europe coming to America to avoid religious persecution. But retracing the past through the ravages of history soon proves to be a tangled and disconnected tale. Tracing the family surname to millers at a farm in Vilnius that had once been designated as a ghetto for the country's "stateless cultures" who migrated from other places such as Poland and Russia, Copans is faced with the reality that he may never be able to trace his roots beyond his ancestors' adopted Lithuanian homeland. Finding a kindred spirit in a Yiddish professor from Brooklyn, New York who relocated to Lithuania in order to study - and in some small way, reclaim - traces of his heritage, Copans hears first hand the indirect legacy of the diaspora: abandoned cemeteries now dependent on the charity of expatriates for their maintenance, younger generations who no longer carry on the traditions of their faith, and splintered families who have lost relatives in their search for a better life (in one episode, an octogenarian named Ziske idiosyncratically parallels his reluctance to leave Lithuania and resettle in Israel with his cousin's ill-fated passage on the Titanic in pursuit of a better life in America). (Strictly Film School)
Note:
Ländercode: Keine Angaben
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Enthaltene Werke: Racines (95 Min.). -Vilnius (43 Min.). -Les disques de Rivka (45 Min.)
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Orig.: Frankreich, 2003
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Franz., und engl.
Language:
French
Keywords:
Litauen
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Judentum
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Auswanderung
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DVD-Video
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DVD-Video
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