The Man Who Cried (2001)

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Rating: R
Release Date: May 25, 2001
Running Time: 99 mins. (V)
Additional Notes: dialogue English
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: France
synopsis
In 1927, fleeing persecution, a Russian Jewish girl named Fegele is bundled off on a boat to England. Fegele is re-named Suzie, sent to a Christian foster home and to school where she learns to sing. 10 years later she leaves England for Paris, where she becomes a chorus girl and befriends ambitious dancer Lola. Together Lola and Suzie find jobs in a new opera company. Suzie falls in love with gypsy horse-handler Cesar, while Lola falls for Dante Dominio, an arrogant opera singer. When the German army invades Paris, Dante and Lola immediately collaborate with the Nazis, while Suzie joins Cesar and his band of gypsy musicians. The Nazis have plans to round up the Jews and the Gypsies. When Dante betrays Suzie, Lola decides to leave him: she tells Suzie that she will help them both get out. Suzie wants to stay and fight, but eventually agrees to leave. Once in America, Suzie continues her search for her father, which finally leads her to Hollywood...
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Cesar
Dante Dominio
Felix Perlman
Young Suzie
Man in Suit
Mother of Man in Suit
Man in Village
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May 24, 2001
The Man Who Cried, directed by Sally Potter (Orlando), stumbles badly over its ambitions. Gifted actors such as Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp and John Turturro are set adrift in Potter's attempt to detail the cultural and emotional displacement caused by war. Her focus is Fegele, a Jewish girl whose widowed father, a cantor, leaves her and her grandmother in their Russian village while he departs for America in 1927 to find them a haven from persecution. Too late. After her… Continued