"Zelig"
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Filmoteca de Catalunya Plaça Salvador Seguí 1-9, 08001 Barcelona
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Zelig, Woody Allen (1983, USA)
Zelig is a mockumentary in which Woody Allen plays Leonard Zelig, a famous character of the twenties and thirties who has fallen into oblivion. The film traces his debacle of a life through the use of resources associated with the documentary genre—interviews, voice-over, and newsreels of the time—in a fascinating and playful historical pastiche reflecting on American society.
This is the story of a chameleon, a fictional person conceived and constructed in the form of the most convincing of documentaries. It's a technical prodigy destined to make the viewer doubt what he or she sees.
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