Kike Like Me (Ws) (2007) (DVD)UPC Number: 698452206837
Actors: Jamie Kastner
Directors: Jamie Kastner
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: KINO VIDEO
Release date: April 21, 2009
Run time: 86 minutes
Product Description
Provocative, mischievous and difficult to dismiss, filmmaker Jamie Kastner's first-person docu-essay dissects identity politics by exploring the question, What does it mean to be perceived as Jewish? For answers, Kastner visits a Parisian suburb noted for its tolerance, where a street interview reveals a darker side of modern Europe; poses some pointed questions to conservative pundit Pat Buchanan; and makes a trip to Auschwitz to observe how a site of extreme evil has been transformed into a tacky tourist attraction. Through it all, Kastner s personal journey becomes a universal exploration funny and frightening, quirky and surprising of identities, images, and the mystery of tribal definition; of differentness, self-conception and misconception, of bigotry and oversensitivity.
Bonus Features:
- A visit with Uncle Bill at Ess-A-Bagel in Manhatten
- Interview with the New Republic s Leon Weiseltier
- Christopher Hitchens on Jewish identity and Israel after recently discovering his Jewish roots.
- Original Theatrical trailer
- Director s tour of the Daniel Liebeskind-designed Jewish Museum in Berlin.
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