A 12-minute family dinner where revolution, exile, and borscht collide. Trotsky's the guest who won't leave.
Every family has its own fictions: why are they invented, what social values do they reflect and how do later generations interpret them? How is political identity formed - passed down, integrated or rejected - within one family? The tale traverses the Pale, the New World and back to the Old World.
Writing
Dense with family shorthand; every sentence carries 80 years.
Acting
Dugladze's Joseph — repressed rage in a cardigan.
Director
November Wanderin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references a real phenomenon in Jewish-American families of inventing brushes with historical greatness. Director Wanderin reportedly based this on her own grandfather's claims.
Shot in a single Brooklyn apartment with natural light; the 12-minute runtime was a hard limit due to film stock donation from Spike Lee's 40 Acres.
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