The Wild One
2023•1h 35m•6.0•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Tessa Louise-Salomé
Writer
Sarah Contou-Terquem, Tessa Louise-Salomé, Elizabeth Schub Kamir
Languages
English
Studio
Petite Maison Production
Cast
Willem Dafoe
Narrator (voice)
Jack Garfein
Self
Peter Bogdanovich
Self
Blanche Baker
Self
Irène Jacob
Self
Bobby Soto
Self
Patricia Bosworth
Self
Dick Guttman
Self
Geoffrey Horne
Self
Foster Hirsch
Self
Production
Company
Petite Maison Production
Company
Studio Babelsberg
Company
Barnstormer Productions
Company
Noodles Production
Producer
Tessa Louise-Salomé
Producer
Chantal Perrin
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