Fighter
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The Fighter (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 19, 2002
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Featured: | Jan Wiener & Arnost Lustig | |
Directed by | Amir Bar-Lev | |
Composition by | Mark Governor & Bedrich Smetana | |
Produced by | Amir Bar-Lev |
Entertainment Reviews:
It's a rarity these days: a film that will leave you thinking.
Kansas City Star
...One of the great documentaries of this year. Remarkable...
Rolling Stone
Even if these guys hadn't each gone through so much strife and real tragedy in their life, they're just interesting right now to see them going back and forth.
Ebert & Roeper
No larger aspect of what is in this film can be new to us; but seeing it in this old-friends perspective gives all of it, familiar and new, a novel effect.
The New Republic
Spending time with these guys is an invigorating treat.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Bar-Lev's intimacy with his subjects is remarkable, and it allows him to reveal how these men have managed to become and remain friends.
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Nitrate Online
...FIGHTER picks up surprising energy....What unfolds onscreen is remarkable: The passions and arguments of the past are resurrected in the present...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
FIGHTER follows two friends, Jan Wiener, to whom the title refers, and Arnost Lustig, a writer--both in their seventies, and both exiles from Communist Czechoslovakia now living in America--as they retrace Wiener's escape from Prague after the Nazi takeover in the 1930s. Wiener's trek took him via Yugoslavia and Italy to London, where he joined the British Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot. Upon returning to Prague after the war, he was falsely accused of being a spy by the Communist regime, and spent five years in a labor camp. Incorporating rare archival footage from Nazi and Communist propaganda films, the documentary focuses on the interaction between Wiener and Lustig as they retrace Wiener's steps and track down some of the individuals connected with his journey. Although they are linked by their similar personal histories surrounding the war, the two friends are eventually driven apart by their conflicting interpretations of the past and their fundamental philosophical differences. Director Amir Bar-Lev's unusual and vastly inquisitive documentary was an acclaimed hit at film festivals as well as in its theatrical release.
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- UPC: 720229910316
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