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Sacco and Vanzetti / a Willow Pond Films production ; directed by Peter Miller ; produced by Peter Miller, Amy Carey Linton ; produced in cooperation with Crawford Communications, Atlanta.
LIBRA DVD 002 739
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921.
- Anarchists--United States--Biography.
- Anarchists.
- United States.
- Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927.
- Sacco, Nicola.
- Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927.
- Vanzetti, Bartolomeo.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Documentary films.
- Biographical films.
- Historical films.
- Video recordings.
- Penn Provenance:
- Wishman, Seymour (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Sacco & Vanzetti
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, NY] : First Run Features, [2007]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Examines the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants accused of murder during a robbery and executed. Uses archival film, music, poetry, and excerpts from the 1971 feature film as well an interviews with historians, artists, and activists and readings from the prison diaries of the defendants to discuss the issues of bigotry and intolerance in America.
- Participant:
- Tony Shalhoub (voice of Sacco), John Turturro (voice of Vanzetti).
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Stephen McCarthy; editor, Amy Carey Linton; original music, John T. LaBarbera.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 2006.
- Special features: director interview; filmmaker biographies; Sacco and Vanzetti F.A.Q.; archival photo gallery; suggested readings.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Seymour Wishman and First Run Features.
- OCLC:
- 171245508
- Publisher Number:
- 720229912761
- FRF 912761D First Run Features
- Online:
- Seymour Wishman First Run Features Collection Home Page
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