Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

12/01/1989

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1hr 20min

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History

,Documentary

STORY

On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Dustin Hoffman
  • Sara Lewinstein
  • David Mandell
  • Suzi Mandell
  • Sallie Perryman

    Directors

  • Rob Epstein
  • Jeffrey Friedman
  • Jean de Segonzac

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Sandollar Productions
  • New Yorker Films

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

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