Intimate Stranger
Director Alan Berliner
Countries United States
Duration 60 min
Synopsis
Seventeen years after his death, Alan Berliner has constructed a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather's life story. Joseph Cassuto, a Palestinian Jew, was a cotton buyer for the Japanese in Egypt prior to World War II. With Hitler's armies just miles away from Alexandria, Cassuto's family is split in half.
Seventeen years after his death, Alan Berliner has constructed a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather's life story. Joseph Cassuto, a Palestinian Jew, was a cotton buyer for the Japanese in Egypt prior to World War II. With Hitler's armies just miles away from Alexandria, Cassuto's family is split in half.