
The Night Trotsky Came to Dinner(2006)
Every family has its own fictions: why are they invented, what social values do they reflect and how do later generations interpret them? How is political identity formed - passed down, integrated or rejected - within one family? The tale traverses the Pale, the New World and back to the Old World.
Movie: The Night Trotsky Came to Dinner
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Joseph Bosniak
Esther Bosniak
Zelman Bosniak
Lev Davidovich (Trotsky)

The Night Trotsky Came to Dinner
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Every family has its own fictions: why are they invented, what social values do they reflect and how do later generations interpret them? How is political identity formed - passed down, integrated or rejected - within one family? The tale traverses the Pale, the New World and back to the Old World.
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