My coffee with Jewish friends : (pace Louis Malle) / a film by Manfred Kirchheimer ; produced, directed, edited by Manfred Kirchheimer ; a Streetwise Film.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Kirchheimer, Manfred, film director, film producer, editor of moving image work, on-screen participant.

Rozenbaum, Abraham, on-screen participant.

Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962, composer (expression).

Alspaugh, Zachary, director of photography.

Gruber, H. K. (Heinz Karl), performer.

Streetwise Films, film production company.

Grasshopper Film (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Identity--21st century.

Jews.

Jews--Identity.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

United States.

Genre:

Nonfiction films.

Documentary films.

Educational films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Distribution:

New York, NY : Grasshopper Film.

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Streetwise Films, [2017]

System Details:

digital optical

widescreen (1.85:1)

NTSC

video file DVD-R video region 1

Summary:

"A new film from veteran filmmaker Manfred Kirchheimer is always a cause for celebration; with My Coffee with Jewish Friends, Kirchheimer uses a simple, humorous title as a screen for a serious and deeply thoughtful exploration of contemporary Jewish identity. In a series of conversations, some one on one, others with long-married couples, all from various walks of life (college students, a female rabbi, a dentist, etc), Kirchheimer gently probes his subjects with tough questions on gender inequality, faith, secularism, the Holocaust, the rise in anti-Semitism, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and others. Their answers - honest, humorous, contradictory - gain a startling universality as the film moves along. My Coffee is another wonderful, densely layered investigation from the director of such award-winning films as Stations of the Elevated (1981), We Were So Beloved (1985), Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (2004) and Canners (2014); a portrait of what's its like to be Jewish in these times" --Container.

Participant:

Featuring Manfred Kirchheimer, Abraham Rozenbaum and many others.

Credits:

Cinematography, Zachary Alspaugh; music, Hanns Eisler; performed by H.K. Gruber.

Notes:

Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2017.

OCLC:

1034017707

Publisher Number:

153 Grasshopper Film