| “A documentary that mixes personal and public history as it describes the 1956 persecution of Marx’s father - a Jewish refugee who fled Germany in 1939 and joined the Communist Party in 1945.“ |
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- J. Rosenbaum, The Reader |
“I have been against all kinds of enslavement of people all my life regardless of where they occur, and against any curtailment of civil liberties wherever they occur.’ So said Werner Marx - German-Jewish refugee, distinguished sailor in the U.S. Navy during WWII, American Communist - to the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities in 1956. ‘You are not fit to be a citizen of the United States,’ replied the U.S. Representative who tried to have Marx denaturalized.
Drawing on a wealth of family archives (stills, home movies, documents, and a video interview with the filmmaker’s mother), this film is both a personal look at a man by a son who never really knew his own father and a pointed look at an era.“ |
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- Ron Epple, Picture Start Catalog |
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