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At home in Utopia
Title
At home in Utopia [videorecording] / [a co-production of ITVS, made in association with WGBH ; a film by Michal Goldman] ; producer/writer/editor, Michal Goldman.
ISBN
9781574482478
1574482475
Published
[San Francisco, CA] : Filmmakers Collaborative : [Distributed by] New Day Films, c2008.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008.
Special features include director's commentary and bonus scenes.
Co-producer, Ellen Brodsky ; director of photography, Boyd Estus ; original music, John Kusiak.
Closed-captioned.
Summary
Focuses on the United Workers Cooperative Colony, aka the Coops, the most grass-roots and member-driven of the Jewish labor housing cooperatives, where many of the residents were Communists or sympathetic to the communist movement. Beginning as a stalwartly secular East European Jewish working class enclave, they were part of an international movement. This film bears witness to lives lived with courage across the barriers of race, nation, language, convention, and sometimes even common sense.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 11, 2010
Credits
Co-producer, Ellen Brodsky ; director of photography, Boyd Estus ; original music, John Kusiak.
Performers
Narrator, Linda Lavin.
System details note
DVD, NTSC; widescreen presentation.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
United Workers' Association (New York, N.Y.)
Independent Television Service.
WGBH (Firm)
Filmmakers Collaborative (San Francisco, Calif.)
New Day Films.
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