2004
Not Rated
Zeitgeist Films
1 h 30 m

2004
Not Rated
Zeitgeist Films
1 h 30 m

Summary Pearl Gluck 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. (Zeitgeist Films)

Documentary

Directed By: Pearl Gluck

Written By: Susan Korda, Pearl Gluck

2004
Not Rated
Zeitgeist Films
1 h 30 m

2004
Not Rated
Zeitgeist Films
1 h 30 m

Divan

Name: Divan
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2004-03-17
Duration: 1 min 30 s
Rating: 71
Cast: Pearl Gluck, Amichai Lau Lavie, Basya Schechter, Giti Koenig, Isaac Stein

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews

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Documentary

Directed By: Pearl Gluck

Written By: Susan Korda, Pearl Gluck

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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews

85% Positive
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews

85% Positive
11 Reviews

15% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Entertainment Weekly

The serious struggle in this lilting doc is told with an inviting light touch and a big heart.

By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW

Village Voice

Warmhearted but unsentimental, touching but not mawkish, clever but never cute, Divan is almost miraculously modest.

By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW

Christian Science Monitor

The picture makes up in energy and high spirits what it lacks in structure and style.

By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

The result is a touching and humorous documentary that for all its enlightening scope, encompassing centuries of religious and cultural history and a physical voyage of thousands of miles, is ultimately a deceptively simple tale of a daughter trying to reconnect with her father across two boroughs.

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TV Guide Magazine

At just under 80 minutes, Gluck's film would make a perfect double bill with "Trembling Before G-d," Sandi Simcha DuBowski's acclaimed documentary about gay Orthodox Jews who, like Gluck, have found themselves caught between their love for their religious heritage and all the secular possibilities they could no longer ignore.

By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW

Variety

Offers a testimonial to the devastation caused in Hungary by the Holocaust, a glimpse into the richness of Yiddish folklore, a passive-aggressive assault on the patriarchal fastness of Hasidic orthodoxy and a vast self-reflexive joke.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Too self-indulgent.

By Jonathan Curiel FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Palinka Pictures

Release Date Mar 17, 2004

Duration 1 h 30 m

Rating Not Rated

Genres

Documentary

Tagline Everyone has a couch. Not everyone has a couch with a story like this.

Website http://www.divan-thecouch.com/

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Awards

Monaco International Film Festival

• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

Divan

Top Cast

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

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