American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein

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Film Information:
Year:

2009

American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
Países:

  
Directores:

David RidgenNicolas Rossier
Color:

Color
Format:

Digibeta
Duration:

84 min

Production:

  • FOTOGRAFÍA: David Ridgen,
  • Nicolas Rossier
  • MONTAJE: Cameron Clendaniel
  • PRODUCCIÓN: David Ridgen,
  • Nicolas Rossier

Contact:

  • Contacto / Contact
  • Baraka Productions
  • Nicolas Rossier
  • 68 Jay Street, Suite 308
  • 11201 New York, NY, USA
  • T +1 718 254 8029
  • F +1 718 254 8028
  • E info@barakaproductions
  • info@americanradicalthefilm.com
  • W www.barakaproductions.com
  • www.americanradicalthefilm.com

Synopsis

Who is Norman Finkelstein? Prophet or pariah? Political scientist or mere provocateur? Those thorny questions drive this scintillating look at the controversial Jewish academic whose 2000 book, The Holocaust Industry, made him an instant lightning rod in the debates over modern Semitic identity and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Granted uncensored access to their subject, co-directors David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier recount Finkelstein’s childhood as the son of Holocaust survivors, his widely publicized battles with Alan Dershowitz (and the tenure committee of DePaul University), and 2008 denial of entry into Israel. The result is a carefully balanced portrait of an uncompromising thinker who, although sometimes his own worst enemy, can not be so easily dismissed.

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