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The Wild One (2023)

★ 6.0/10 95 min Documentary France, Germany, United States English
Streaming: Not available

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In the work of Jack Garfein - Holocaust survivor, theater and film director, key figure in the formation of the Actors Studio - past and and present freely intermingled to contribute to memorable stage productions and in two films, many which were ahead of their time in tackling such issues as homosexuality, race and violence. Powered by his vivid recollections and augmented with readings by Willem Dafoe, The Wild One traces Garfein’s life: his Czechoslovakian youth, his family’s fleeing the Nazis, surviving in Auschwitz and other camps, his 1946 arrival at 16 in New York and coming under the wing of Lee Strasberg, Hollywood, his marriage to actress Carroll Baker.

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Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe Narrator (voice)
Jack Garfein Self
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich Self
Blanche Baker
Blanche Baker Self
Irène Jacob
Irène Jacob Self
Bobby Soto
Bobby Soto Self
Patricia Bosworth Self
Dick Guttman Self

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