Daniel [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures ; screenplay by E.L. Doctorow ; a John Heyman production ; produced by Burtt Harris ; directed by Sidney Lumet.
Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Edward Asner, Ellen Barkin, Amanda Plummer. Based on the novel "The book of Daniel" by E.L. Doctorow. Originally released in 1983 as a motion picture by Paramount.
Contents:
The electric chair -- the Isaacson Foundation -- Young Communist League -- Lessons from the old country -- May Day protests -- Grass roots communist ideology -- My Soviet comrades -- Susan's attempt -- Paul and Rochelle become symbols -- The children are indoctrinated -- The peoples' soldiers go to see Robeson -- Visiting Susan -- Drawn and quartering -- Mindish has been arrested -- FBI comes to question Paul -- Paul is arrested -- Violated the Espionage Act of 1917 -- Daniel reflects on Susan's influence -- Rochelle lashes against Mindish -- Rochelle testifies at grand jury -- Rochelle is arrested -- A home for Daniel and Susan -- Daniel searches for answers -- Letter from Mom -- East Bronx Children's Center -- Daniel and Susan break out -- Corporal punishment in Czarist Russia -- Daniel searches for papers and files -- Susan's deterioration -- Jacob Ascher hurts the case -- The trial -- Passion and hate -- Burning at the stake -- The last visit to Mom and Dad -- Linda Mindish, two perspectives -- Confronting Mindish -- The execution -- The funerals -- The resistance continues.
Summary:
After his parents work with the Communist Party and are executed for selling secrets to the Soviets, a young man involves himself in the protests of the 60's, and lives with his belief that his parents were wrongly murdered.
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