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Daniel (1983) -- The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s.

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E.L. Doctorow (novel)
E.L. Doctorow (screenplay)
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7 March 1984 (France) more
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The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Timothy Hutton ... Daniel Isaacson

Mandy Patinkin ... Paul Isaacson
Lindsay Crouse ... Rochelle Isaacson

Edward Asner ... Jacob Ascher

Ellen Barkin ... Phyllis Isaacson
Julie Bovasso ... Frieda Stein

Tovah Feldshuh ... Linda Mindish
Joseph Leon ... Selig Mindish

Carmen Mathews ... Mrs. Ascher
Norman Parker ... East Bronx Children's Shelter Director

Amanda Plummer ... Susan Isaacson
Lee Richardson ... Reporter
John Rubinstein ... Robert Lewin

Colin Stinton ... Dale
Maria Tucci ... Lise Lewin
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130 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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The execution scenes were filmed in the former death chamber at Sing Sing Prison utilizing the electric chair that once sat there. more

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this is what the American system is about, 27 August 2008
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If you want to know what the American society is about, this film is a good place to start gaining such knowledge. To protect their property, those few rich who own America, Jew and Non-Jew, will stop at nothing. As always, it is easier to understand a few people's sufferings compared with millions sufferings. But that is not really the lesson here. The lesson is that America has never been a democracy. At best it is an oligarchy inhabited by people, who believe that something is fair because it is a competition in which everyone can participate, admittedly not on the same terms but still. But a competition in which the many are left comparatively poor and the few are the winners is not something fair - it's an abomination! And a democracy (the only one existing now is the one in Switzerland with all its flaws) is government by the people, the people deciding in matters and the government only having the right to carry out what the people have decided, which, for some odd reason, today is called "direct" democracy. America is and has always been a representative dictatorship, in which the people have the right to choose one of their dictators (those with the real power always hiding in the background, the owners who buy everyone) called "the president" and otherwise have very little right. How little "right" the American people has in the American society is made very obvious in this picture.

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