Richard Copans: Love Affair (The Novel) / Roots: The Lithuanian Trilogy ( Racines / Un amour (Roman) / Les disques de Rivka / Vilnius ) ( Roots / Love Affair (The Novel) )

Richard Copans: Love Affair (The Novel) / Roots: The Lithuanian Trilogy (DVD) (*)

$48.99

Original Title: Racines / Un amour (Roman) / Les disques de Rivka / Vilnius
Alternate Title: Roots / Love Affair (The Novel)
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
213 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2003-2014 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Richard Copans

Written By:
Richard Copans

Marie Nimier

Actors:
Dominique Blanc

Synopsis:

Roots: Richard Copans's Racines (Roots) examines the nature of identity, migration, transplantation, and reconstructed history. A routine trip to the dentist provides the point of departure for the filmmaker, as they discuss implants as a way of recreating permanent teeth through artificial roots. For Copans, the analogy proves salient. The son of Simon Copans, an American expatriate and Voice of America jazz radio personality (as well as a communist sympathizer who emigrated to France during the Red Scare to avoid political persecution), his knowledge of his paternal family history had been limited to familiar stories of turn of the century immigrants from old Europe coming to America to avoid religious persecution. But retracing the past through the ravages of history soon proves to be a tangled and disconnected tale. Tracing the family surname to millers at a farm in Vilnius that had once been designated as a ghetto for the country's 'stateless cultures' who migrated from other places such as Poland and Russia, Copans is faced with the reality that he may never be able to trace his roots beyond his ancestors' adopted Lithuanian homeland... Love Affair (The Novel): From their first encounter in Chartres in 1939, the love affair between Lucienne, a shop assistant at Gallimard, and Simon, an American student, unfolds. It's a love story set against historic moments, the end of the Spanish Civil War, the war against Nazism. It's a story that travels between France and America. Lucienne and Simon, who've become fictional characters through Marie Nimier, a writer. They are my parents.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 12 July, 2020.