Fighter [2000]
Available digitallyHU_OSA_00004202
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Original Title
Fighter
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Language
English
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Published
United States, 2000.
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Physical Description
DVD-ROM (86 min.)
Contents Summary
A documentary about two men in their seventies with a bond between them – both Holocaust survivors and Czech/American émigrés, who left Prague as dissidents under the Communist regime. Jan Wiener, 77, is the fighter of the title, a fit, trim university literature professor abroad and wilderness guide at home, in Lenox, Massachusetts. Arnošt Lustig, 72, in addition to being a professor of film and literature at Washington University, is a celebrated Czech author and scenarist. The two Jewish men met in the U.S. in 1978 and they became close friends. The film essays their friendship and, perhaps also its likely dissolution. The occasion for the falling-out is a journey the two take in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Italy, retracing Wiener’s escape from the Nazis. Lustig accompanies Wiener because he has long wished to write a book about his friend’s life. But this attempt, ironically, brings up all the differences between the two men, not only in terms of their personalities, which have always clashed in bouts of genial bickering, but also in their pasts, their very lives.
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Soros Documentary Fund
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Library Special Collection
Soros Documentary Fund
Holdings
| Item Type | Current Location | Collection | Call Number | Volume Info | Shelving Location | Public Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD-ROM | OSA Film Library | OSA Film Library | - | - | - | - |
| DIGIFILM | OSA Film Library | OSA Film Library | FL Record 2587 | - | Audio Visual | Access Copy, MP4 format |
Fighter [2000]
Available digitallyHU_OSA_00004202
Moving ImageGeneral Information
Director/Creator
General Information
Original Title
Fighter
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Language
English
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Published
United States, 2000.
General Information
Physical Description
DVD-ROM (86 min.)
Contents Summary
A documentary about two men in their seventies with a bond between them – both Holocaust survivors and Czech/American émigrés, who left Prague as dissidents under the Communist regime. Jan Wiener, 77, is the fighter of the title, a fit, trim university literature professor abroad and wilderness guide at home, in Lenox, Massachusetts. Arnošt Lustig, 72, in addition to being a professor of film and literature at Washington University, is a celebrated Czech author and scenarist. The two Jewish men met in the U.S. in 1978 and they became close friends. The film essays their friendship and, perhaps also its likely dissolution. The occasion for the falling-out is a journey the two take in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Italy, retracing Wiener’s escape from the Nazis. Lustig accompanies Wiener because he has long wished to write a book about his friend’s life. But this attempt, ironically, brings up all the differences between the two men, not only in terms of their personalities, which have always clashed in bouts of genial bickering, but also in their pasts, their very lives.
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Genre
Bibliographic Information
Note
Soros Documentary Fund
Bibliographic Information
Library Special Collection
Soros Documentary Fund
Holdings
DVD
Item Type
DVD
Current Location
OSA Film Library
Current Location
OSA Film Library
Call Number
-
Volume Info
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Shelving Location
-
Public Note
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Digital Film