The Man Who Cried

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A grand epic from the creator of Orlando and The Tango Lesson, The Man Who Cried is a young woman's coming-of-age story set in the dangerous maelstrom of Nazi-occupied Paris. The film charts a journey that begins in the lost world of old Jewry and ends in the new world of Hollywood: a journey in which a seven-year-old girl's name and native tongue are stripped from her, causing her to retreat into silence even as she discovers her family gift for song. Sally Potter's elegant and moving film mourns for those lost in the terrible events of the last century and celebrates those who found their voices and survived.


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The Man Who Cried is a story about survival set in Paris in 1939. A girl, Suzie, loses everything and everyone she loves, but nevertheless finds a singing voice and begins a search for her long-lost father. The people she meets on her journey (Lola, a Russian dancer; Dante, an Italian opera singer; and Cesar, a gypsy horseman), are also trying to survive, each in his or her own way. At first their struggles are personal - the fight for friendship, for money and power, for love. But with the threat of war, survival issues become matters of life and death. The choices - political and moral - that the four characters make under this terrible pressure define who they are.


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