Witness 11
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| Witness 11 | |
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| Directed by | Sean Mitchell |
| Produced by | Helen Jang Mitchell and Sean Mitchell |
| Written by | Sean Mitchell |
| Starring | Oleg Liptsin Paul Guadarrama |
| Music by | Larry Groupe |
| Cinematography | Chris Lawing |
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Production
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Metaphora Studios
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Release dates
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2012 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Witness 11 is a 2012 short dramatic film based on the testimony of renowned German poet and playwright, Bertolt Brecht, during the height of the 1940s Red Scare.[1] It was directed by Sean Mitchell,[2] and stars Oleg Liptsin, Paul Guadarrama and Matt Shelton.
The film was shot in 2012 at the Berkeley City Club in Berkeley, California.[3]
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Plot
Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee.[4] (HUAC) during their notorious Hollywood Ten[5] investigation, famed German playwright Bertolt Brecht must choose between betraying himself and his friends, and imprisonment. In the end, Brecht testified that he had never been a member of the Communist Party.[4]
Cast
- Oleg Liptsin as Bertolt Brecht
- Paul Guadarrama as Robert E. Stripling
- Matt Shelton as Dalton Trumbo
- Tatjana Dzambazova as Helene Brecht
- Dean Enciroli as J. Parnell Thomas
- Philip Estrin as Green
- John Scacco as Rep. Vail
- Steven Mann as Herbert Biberman
- Fritz Zimmerman as Baumgardt
- David Rosenthal as John Howard Lawson
- Bret Grantham as Bartley Crum
- Juliet Hilton as Barbara Brecht
References
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Brecht_HUAC_hearing
- ↑ Ceplair, Larry (2011). Anti-Communism in Twentieth Century America: A Critical History. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger. p. 77.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Witness 11 at IMDb
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