Algren

Algren (2021)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2021-10-21
  • User Rating: 6/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 25min
  • Production Company: Montrose Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Michael Caplan
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Summary

Algren will spotlight the hard-knock life and authentic creative legacy of one of the most underrated writers of the twentieth century, Nelson Algren. Algren's brutally honest portrayal of the American underclass and his hard-nosed lifestyle became his pathway to compassion. Through interviews with Algren contemporaries, experts, and "literary soulmates," as well as through the photography of Algren's friends, Art Shay and Stephen Deutch, the film will tell his story. It will celebrate his tremendous contribution to and influence on American letters, and push Algren, champion of the marginalized, out from the margins.

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  • Nelson Algren

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Russell Banks

    as Self
  • Billy Corgan

    as Self
  • Andrew Davis

    as Self
  • William Friedkin

    as Self
  • Philip Kaufman

    as Self
  • Wayne Kramer

    as Self
  • John Sayles

    as Self
  • Suzanne McNear

    as Self
  • Stephen Elliott

    as Self
  • Studs Terkel

    as Self
Directing Michael Caplan Director
Writing Michael Caplan Writer
Writing Drew Hall Writer
Sound Wayne Kramer Music
Editing Drew Hall Editor
Writing Nelson Algren Writer
Camera Peter Biagi Director of Photography

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