Jack Garfein (2)

Jack Garfein, cineasta americano de origen checo (Mukacevo, Checoslovaquia, 1930). Rescatado de Auschwitz, llegó a los Estados Unidos en 1945. Hombre de teatro, seguidor del Actorts Studio, fue ayudante de Elia Kazan (Baby Doll, 1956) y George Stevens (Gigante, id.) antes de debutar en el cine con The Strange One (1957). Dirigió sobre todo a su mujer Carroll Baker en una bella película desesperada y original, Something Wild (1961). Después de eso volvió al teatro. Christian Viviani. Diccionario de Directores, Ed. Rialp.

(born July 2, 1930, in Mukacevo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, now Mukacheve, Ukraine) is a key historical figure of the Actors' Studio, director, writer, teacher and producer.

Garfein was once married to actress Carroll Baker with whom we had two children : actress Blanche Baker and Grammy-Award winning American composer, Herschel Garfein. Garfein second marriage was to Anna Laretta with whom he had two children Rela Garfein (scholarship graduate of HEC in Paris), Elias Garfein (scholarship graduate of Sorbonne

He has been living the past four years with his partner, Natalia Repolovsky, a pianist and technical writer.

Multitalented artist, he is the author of two both politically and artistically challenging films that did not spare Hollywood’s conservatism and led to censorship. In The Strange One (1957), he tackled the question of racism in America. As a Jewish Holocaust survivor, he was deeply shocked by the segregation at his arrival in the US and he fought for the right for African-American actors to be featured in the film. The Strange One was also censored by the Motion Picture Production Code for general “homosexual overtones”, and “excessive brutality and suggestive sequences [that] tend to arouse disrespect for lawful authority”. In his second film, Something Wild (1961), derived from Alex Karmel’s novel Mary Ann, he similarly tackled the studios’ conventions by formally depicting rape. The film, starring Garfein’s then wife Carroll Baker, was later described by Garfein as a metaphor for his spiritual journey. The film also raises questions of race and class in America. Something Wild features an original score by Aaron Copland, the title sequence by Saul Bass, and the photography by Eugen Schüfftan.
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Director (4 credits)
1961 Something Wild
1957 The Strange One
1955 Windows (TV Series)
1954 The Marriage (TV Series) (1 episode)
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Enlaces completados:
OK The Strange One (Jack Garfein, 1957) [720p]
OK Something Wild (Jack Garfein, 1961)

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