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The Wild One

05/10/2023

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1hr 35min

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Documentary

STORY

In the work of Jack Garfein - Holocaust survivor, theater and film director, key figure in the formation of the Actors Studio - past and and present freely intermingled to contribute to memorable stage productions and in two films, many which were ahead of their time in tackling such issues as homosexuality, race and violence. Powered by his vivid recollections and augmented with readings by Willem Dafoe, The Wild One traces Garfein’s life: his Czechoslovakian youth, his family’s fleeing the Nazis, surviving in Auschwitz and other camps, his 1946 arrival at 16 in New York and coming under the wing of Lee Strasberg, Hollywood, his marriage to actress Carroll Baker.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Willem Dafoe
  • Jack Garfein
  • Peter Bogdanovich
  • Blanche Baker
  • Irène Jacob

    Directors

  • Tessa Louise-Salomé
  • Chantal Perrin

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Petite Maison Production
  • Studio Babelsberg
  • Barnstormer Productions
  • Noodles Production

    Production Countries

  • France
  • Germany
  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Willem Dafoe

Narrator (voice)

Blanche Baker

Self

Irène Jacob

Self

Bobby Soto

Self

Patricia Bosworth

Self

Dick Guttman

Self

Geoffrey Horne

Self

Foster Hirsch

Self

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