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Divan (A Divany)
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Release Date: | March 17, 2004 |
| Running time: | 77 minutes |
| Cast: | Amichai Lau Lavie, Basya Schechter, Louis Farkovitz, Mark Joseph Altman, Michelle Miller |
| Director: | Pearl Gluck |
| Producer: | Pearl Gluck |
| Writer: | Pearl Gluck, Zelda Greenstein |
| Distributor: | Zeitgeist Films |
Description: To reclaim an ancestral couch upon which esteemed rabbis slept, Pearl Gluck travels from her Hasidic community in Brooklyn to her roots in Hungary. Along the way, a colorful cast of characters gets involved--the couch exporter, her ex-communist cousin in Budapest, a pair of matchmakers, and a renegade group of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews. The chronicle creates a visual parable that offers the possibility of personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery.
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