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Who’s afraid of the Wolf? (Kdopak by se vlka bál) William Kunstler: Disturbing the universe
CZECH REPUBLIC
Terezka is a cheerful six-year-old with a rich inner life – especially
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Emily and Sarah, the 30-something daughters of radical leftist lawyer
Director: Maria Procházková compared to her real life, which is beginning to wear on her. A lonely Director: Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler William Kunstler, have ambivalent feelings about their father, who died
Producer: Vratislav Slajer only child, she is an attentive and curious observer – all too aware of the Executive Producer: Vanessa Hope in 1995. For one thing, they wonder why, late in his storied career, he
Screenwriter: Mária Procházková
sometimes boring, sometimes unsettling, life of her beloved parents.
Producers: Emily Kunstler,
defended the indefensible – drug dealers, the assassin of Jewish militant
Cinematographer: Martin Stepánek
Her response? Every night, she asks mother to read her Little Red Riding Sarah Kunstler Meir Kahane, and New York mafia don John Gotti. But this vivid portrait
Editor: Marek Opatrny
Hood – even though every night she has bad dreams as a result. And
Screenwriter: Sarah Kunstler of a man and his causes is mostly sympathetic, a labor of familial love
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Cast:
every day, she adds imaginative, animated flourishes to the story unfold-
Dorota Dedková,
Cinematographer: Brett Wiley
codirected with care and passion.
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Jitka Cvancarová, Pavel Reznícek,
ing around her.
Editor: Emily Kunstler
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Martin Hofman, Jana Krausová
2009 / color, b&w / 87 min.
Combining old home movies, TV news clips, and their own memories,
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2008 / color / 90 min.
Terezka’s mother is a singer who gave up her career to marry. When she the sisters reveal a brilliant and stubborn attorney whose commitment
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reconnects with an old love who remains a professional musician, jeal- to social justice propelled him from the civil rights era into the political
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ousies and disappointments threaten the stability of the family. Terezka fires of the 1960s, when he became lead counsel for the Chicago 8,
seeks to make sense out of these adult matters, to work out a happy
EMiLY KunSTLEr
defender of the Native American occupiers at Wounded Knee, and
Maria ProChÁzKoVÁ ending by kindergarten standards – and as her interest in aliens grows, While earning a BFA from New York negotiator for the doomed inmates who occupied Attica Prison, among
Born in Prague in 1975, Maria
she begins to wonder if her mother is really her mother. Little does she
University’s Tisch School of the Arts,
others.
Procházková received a degree in
realize the extent of the truth.
Emily Kunstler cofounded Off Center
animation from the Film and Television Media with her sister Sarah Kunstler,
School at the Academy of Performing
a production company that focuses
Was Kunstler a staunch defender of the powerless or a self-absorbed
Arts (FAMU). She went on to direct
As charming as the colorful drawings that decorate it, this sophomore
on exposing wrongs in the criminal
opportunist? Despite the praise heaped upon him by such human rights
several music videos and short films outing by Czech writer/director Maria Prochazkova (Shark in the Head) justice system through the creation heroes as Julian Bond, Tom Hayden, and Russell Means, this highly per-
and completed her first feature, Shark
is enhanced by fairy tale–inspired cinematography and an atmospheric
and circulation of media. In 2000,
sonal documentary offers no easy answers. But the filmmakers remain
in the Head, in 2005.
soundtrack that conveys the fragile innocence of the child whose
Emily Kunstler went on to work for
slightly awed by their famous father: “It seemed he was at the center of
perspective it captures.
Democracy Now! as a video producer.
William Kunstler: Disturbing the
everything important that ever happened,” daughter Emily recalls.
Universe is her first feature.
In cooperation with: bouncingCzechs.US productions
In cooperation with: AClU of Colorado
Sarah KunSTLEr
Sarah Kunstler graduated from Yale
University with a BA in photography in
1998 and from Columbia Law School
with a JD in 2004. Along with her sister
Emily, Sarah directed and produced
Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War
(2003), which won Best Documentary
Short at the Woodstock Film Festival.
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