It's No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl
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Cast & Crew
Richard Trank
Steven Schub
Athena Demos
Jim Wyatt
Robert S Wistrich
Arthur Cohn
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An examination of the life and times of Theodor Herzl, who was responsible for creating the political movement that led in 1948 to the founding of the Jewish state, Israel. Herzl--an assimilated Jew, a successful playwright and author, born into a traditional but mostly non-religious family in Budapest in 1860--was changed by the trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris, which he covered as a journalist in 1895. Previously, he had advocated the mass conversion of Jews to Christianity as a solution to the growing anti-Semitism of Europe. However, after witnessing the court proceedings where Dreyfus was falsely convicted of treason and the anti-Jewish demonstrations of the French public, Herzl became convinced that the only answer to the anti-Semitism that was spreading across Europe was the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, the Biblical homeland of the Jewish people. He wrote a political treatise entitled "Der Judenstaat" or "The Jewish State" that became an international bestseller, laying out his ideas for creating a new Jewish state.
Director
Richard Trank
Cast
Steven Schub
Athena Demos
Jim Wyatt
Robert S Wistrich
Arthur Cohn
Ben Kingsley
Matthew Asner
Shimon Peres
Robert S Wistrich
Christoph Waltz
Arthur Cohn
Brian Mcardle
Shimon Peres
Tom Metcalf
Crew
Joe Barnett
Arthur Cohn
Nimrod Erez
Mark Friedman
Rabbi Marvin Hier
Rabbi Marvin Hier
Lee Holdridge
Katrin Osmialowski
Shimon Peres
Jason Spira-bauer
Richard Trank
Richard Trank
Richard Trank
Jeffrey Victor
Jeffrey Victor
Jeffrey Victor
Aviva Weinstein
Robert S Wistrich
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Limited Release in United States August 10, 2012
Limited Release in United States August 17, 2012
Limited Release in United States August 10, 2012
Limited Release in United States August 17, 2012 (Los Angeles)
