Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Daniel / Paramount ; directed by Sidney Lumet ; screenplay by E.L. Doctorow ; a John Heyman production ; produced by Burtt Harris.

Publisher, Date:

[Chicago, Ill.] : Olive Films, 2015.

Description:

1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

A fictionalized account of the son of a Jewish couple who are branded as spies and put to death by the U.S. government. Believing that his parents were wrongly convicted and executed, their son Daniel Isaacson, an anti-war activist, sets out to clear their name. The film flips back and forth from the story of Daniel and the story of his parents. Based on the real case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Subjects:

Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Drama.

Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Drama.

Trials (Espionage) -- United States -- Drama.

Spies -- United States -- Drama.

Jewish families -- Drama.

Children of prisoners -- Drama.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Fiction films.