Divan (tbc)
- Run time: 1 hour 30 mins
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1st January 2003
- Starring: Not Known
- Directed by: Pearl Gluck
Plot Synopsis
Divan follows the filmmaker's effort to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom - a couch.
Director Pearl Gluck journeys from her birthplace, Brooklyn's Hasidic community, to Hungary and back. The couch, considered holy because certain Hasidic rabbis had slept on it, survived World War II and is in the filmmaker's great grandfather's house in Rohod, Hungary. In the tradition of storytelling, the filmmaker creates a visual parable about the Hasidic community that she left as a teenager. She trails after the couch through a quirky landscape populated by Hasidim in Brooklyn, Holocaust survivors and ex-communists in Hungary, and, finally, the next generation of formerly-Hasidic Jews on the margins of their communities in New York and Israel.