The life of the composer, shaped by his Jewish heritage, his morality and his playful sense of humor.
Direction
Susan Lacy lets Bernstein's own words destroy and rebuild him.
Editing
Archival footage so intimate you'll feel like family.
Director
Susan Lacy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bernstein insisted on being buried with his baton and a copy of Mahler's Fifth—the same piece that opens the film.
This documentary landed during the 1998 'Bernstein boom,' when West Side Story revivals and CD reissues made him suddenly bankable again—two months before his actual death made it accidentally prescient.
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