RED FATHER
Sat. Feb 21, 2015 at 12:45pm EST
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Dir. Tova Beck-Friedman (56min, USA, 2014)
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Red Father follows the life of Bernard Ades, a Communist, Jewish lawyer raised in Baltimore and radicalized by the Great Depression. Set against the backdrop of the pre-civil rights era, the film follows Ades as he seeks to end systemic legal racism in Maryland, fights Fascism with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, and becomes a target himself during the dark days of America's McCarthyism.
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