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Tickling Leo (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
92 min + 93 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jeremy Davidson

Written By:
Jeremy Davidson

Actors:
Eli Wallach ..... Emil Pikler
Annie Parisse ..... Delphina Adams
Lawrence Pressman ..... Warren Pikler
Ronald Guttman ..... Robert Pikler
Daniel Sauli ..... Zak Pikler
Bern Cohen ..... Yosef Gottleib
Victoria Clark ..... Madeleine Pikler
Evan Neumann ..... Emil Pikler - young
Lara Apponyi ..... Rivka Pikler
Gameela Wright ..... Nurse
Michael Marinoff ..... Young Oscar

Synopsis:

Family patriarch Emil Pikler (Eli Wallach), his sons, Warren (Lawrence Pressman) and Robert (Ronald Guttman), and grandson, Zak (Daniel Sauli), attempt to untangle emotional knots between them when a dark family secret about past choices begins to unravel. Annie Parisse and Victoria Clark co-star in this deftly designed drama, which is inspired by the Kasztner Train transport of Hungarian Jews during World War II.On March 3, 1957, Rudolph Kasztner, a Hungarian Zionist, was assassinated on the streets of Tel Aviv for the choices he made while negotiating the rescue of 1,685 people on the notorious 'Kasztner Train.' Fifty years later in the Catskills, one of those survivors and his fractured family are forced to unravel the mystery behind their own choices in relation to this historical event.

Set around the days of Yom Kippur, TICKLING LEO follows three generations of a family whose secrets and resentments threaten to wipe away its future. When he loses touch with his estranged father, Zak Pikler and his girlfriend Delphina travel to an abandoned Catskill lake where the eccentric poet Warren Yitzchak Pikler lives in solitude and declining health. As Zak copes with his fathers dementia, Delphina begins to uncover a secret the Piklers have been hiding since the Holocaust of World War II. Through twists of plot and character, TICKLING LEO lays bare the Pikler familys humorous, faulty, and always passionate search for an understanding of what it means to be an American family in the 21st century.

In the days before Yom Kippur (aka the Day of Atonement), Zak Pikler takes his pregnant girlfriend, Delphina, to find his estranged father in the family drama Tickling Leo, written and directed by Jeremy Davidson. When they reach the man's home in the Catskills, Zak finds that his father has turned into a hermit and is suffering from dementia. But the problems in the present only mask those in the past, causing his father to revisit the Holocaust and his escape from Hungary. Produced by actress and director Mary Stuart Masterson, Tickling Leo stars Daniel Sauli, Annie Parisse, Lawrence Pressman, and Eli Wallach.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 03 February, 2011.

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