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Oct 2018
20m 56s

Itzhak with Alison Chernick and Robert W...

DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA
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Director Alison Chernick discusses her film, Itzhak, with fellow director Robert Weide. The film follows celebrated violinist Itzhak Perlman, looking beyond his performances to see the polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel, and the young man who struggled to be taken seriously as a music student when schools saw only his disability. S ... Show More
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