American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy
1989 film
- February 1989 (1989-02)
Running time
French
American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (French: Histoires d'Amérique) is a 1989 Belgian drama film directed by Chantal Akerman. It was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] The film deals with Jewish identity in the center of the United States.
Plot
The film is set in New York City, near Williamsburg Bridge. It follows several people telling their life story.
Cast
- Mark Amitin
- Eszter Balint
- Stephan Balint
- Kirk Baltz
- George Bartenieff
- Billy Bastiani
- Jacob Becker
- Isha Manna Beck
- Max Brandt
- Maurice Brenner
- David Buntzman
- Marilyn Chris
- Sharon Diskin
- Carl Don
- Dean Zeth Jackson as Teitelbaum
- Judith Malina
- Irina V. Passmoore (as Irina Pasmur)
- Herbert Rubens as Martin
- Victor Talmadge
References
- ^ "Berlinale: 1989 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
External links
- American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy at IMDb
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Films directed by Chantal Akerman
- Hotel Monterey (1973)
- Hanging Out Yonkers (1973)
- Je Tu Il Elle (1974)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
- News from Home (1977)
- Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
- Dis-moi (1980)
- Toute une nuit (1982)
- Golden Eighties (1986)
- American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989)
- Les trois dernières sonates de Franz Schubert (1989)
- Night and Day (1991)
- D'Est (1993)
- Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels (1994)
- A Couch in New York (1996)
- Sud (1999)
- La Captive (2000)
- De l'autre côté (2002)
- Tomorrow We Move (2004)
- Down There (2006)
- Almayer's Folly (2011)
- No Home Movie (2015)
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