La ciudad / Oscilloscope Laboratories and,Independent Television Service and Echo Lake Productions present ; a North Star Films production ; a film by David Riker ; produced by David Riker and Paul S. Mezey ; written and directed by David Riker.
Edition:
Widescreen.
Publisher:
Oscilloscope Pictures,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Filmed in New York City between 1992 and 1997; originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Special features: Cinema from below (2004); Fifteen years later - a new conversation with David Riker and some of the original cast; theatrical trailer. Anthony Rivera, Joseph Rigano, Miguel Maldonado, Ricardo Cuevas.
Summary:
An unforgettable portrait of immigrant life in a collection of four stories about love, hope, and loss: a day laborer paid to gather bricks from an abandoned lot meets a tragic end; a young man newly arrived from Mexico falls in love with a girl from his home village; a homeless puppeteer dreams of a better life for his daughter; and a seamstress is in desperate need of money to send home for her daughter's medical treatment.
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