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Divan (2003)

Not Rated (US) | USA, Hungary, Israel, Ukraine | English, Hungarian, Yiddish | 90 min
Directed by: Pearl Gluck
6.8

Divan follows the filmmaker's effort to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heir loom - a couch. The filmmaker journeys from her birthplace, Brooklyn's Hasidic community, to its origins in Hungary and back. The couch - considered holy because certain Hasidic rabbis had slept on it - survived WWII and is in the filmmaker's great grandfather's house in Rohod, a northeast Hungarian town. In the tradition of storytelling, the filmmaker creates a visual parable about the Hasidic community that she left as a teenager. She trails the couch through a quirky landscape populated by Hasidim in Brooklyn, Holocaust survivors and ex-communists in Hungary, and, finally, the next generation of formerly-Hasidic Jews on the margins of their communities in New York and Israel.

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Release Date
USA
(Tribeca Film Festival)
2003-05
Hungary
(Titanic International Filmpresence Festival)
2003-10-12
USA
(Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival)
2004-03-13
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Also Known As (A.K.A.)
Divan
(Original title)
A divány
Hungary
Диван
Russia
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Parent Guide
Sex & Nudity
Unrated
Violence & Gore
Unrated
Profanity
Unrated
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
Unrated
Frightening & Intense Scenes
Unrated