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As a teenager, filmmaker Pearl Gluck left her Orthodox Jewish clan in Brooklyn for secular life in Manhattan. Many years later, Pearl's father has one wish: that she marry and return to the community. Pearl, however, takes a more creative approach to mend the breach. She travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom: a couch upon which esteemed rabbis once slept. En route for the ancestral divan, Pearl encounters a colorful cast of characters who provide guidance and inspiration, including a couch exporter, her ex-Communist cousin in Budapest, a pair of Hungarian-American matchmakers and a renegade group of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews. Nimbly clever and intensely illuminating, DIVAN is a visual parable that offers the possibility of personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery. DIVAN is out of print on DVD for home use. If you are interested in watching this film please email us . For educational use please click on Educational above.
Original Release
05/01/2003
US Release
05/01/2003
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Pearl Gluck | Self - Narrator |
| Amichai Lau Lavie | Self |
| Basya Schechter | Self |
| Giti Koenig | Self |
| Isaac Stein | Self |
| Jeanette Friedman | Self |
| Louis Farkowitz | Self |
| Mark Joseph Altman | Self |
| Michelle Miller | Self |
| Pessy Sloan | Self |
Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Pearl Gluck | Self - Narrator |
| Amichai Lau Lavie | Self |
| Basya Schechter | Self |
| Giti Koenig | Self |
| Isaac Stein | Self |
| Jeanette Friedman | Self |
| Louis Farkowitz | Self |
| Mark Joseph Altman | Self |
| Michelle Miller | Self |
| Pessy Sloan | Self |
| Bruriah Sloan | Self |
| Rosalie Osian | Self |
| Sarah Cecilie Finkelstein | Self |
| Yermiyahu Ahron Taub | Self |
| Malke Feldman | Self - My Great Aunt |
| Jeff Taylor | Self - Exporter in Hungary |
| Judy Gluck | Self - My Mother |
| Leo Cianci | Self - Her Dance Partner |
| Meshulm Rottenberg | Self - Kossonye Grandchild |
| Nedivah Rottenberg | Self - His Wife |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Isaac Stein | Producer |
| Pearl Gluck | Producer |
| Sarah Goodman | Producer |
| András Surányi | Producer |
