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As a teenager, filmmaker Pearl Gluck left her Orthodox Jewish clan in Brooklyn for secular life in Manhattan. Many years later, Pearl's father has one wish: that she marry and return to the community. Pearl, however, takes a more creative approach to mend the breach. She travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom: a couch upon which esteemed rabbis once slept. En route for the ancestral divan, Pearl encounters a colorful cast of characters who provide guidance and inspiration, including a couch exporter, her ex-Communist cousin in Budapest, a pair of Hungarian-American matchmakers and a renegade group of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews. Nimbly clever and intensely illuminating, DIVAN is a visual parable that offers the possibility of personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery. DIVAN is out of print on DVD for home use. If you are interested in watching this film please email us . For educational use please click on Educational above.
Original Release
05/01/2003
US Release
05/01/2003
Cast
Name | Character |
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Pearl Gluck | Self - Narrator |
Amichai Lau Lavie | Self |
Basya Schechter | Self |
Giti Koenig | Self |
Isaac Stein | Self |
Jeanette Friedman | Self |
Louis Farkowitz | Self |
Mark Joseph Altman | Self |
Michelle Miller | Self |
Pessy Sloan | Self |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Pearl Gluck | Self - Narrator |
Amichai Lau Lavie | Self |
Basya Schechter | Self |
Giti Koenig | Self |
Isaac Stein | Self |
Jeanette Friedman | Self |
Louis Farkowitz | Self |
Mark Joseph Altman | Self |
Michelle Miller | Self |
Pessy Sloan | Self |
Bruriah Sloan | Self |
Rosalie Osian | Self |
Sarah Cecilie Finkelstein | Self |
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub | Self |
Malke Feldman | Self - My Great Aunt |
Jeff Taylor | Self - Exporter in Hungary |
Judy Gluck | Self - My Mother |
Leo Cianci | Self - Her Dance Partner |
Meshulm Rottenberg | Self - Kossonye Grandchild |
Nedivah Rottenberg | Self - His Wife |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Isaac Stein | Producer |
Pearl Gluck | Producer |
Sarah Goodman | Producer |
András Surányi | Producer |