Liability Crisis (1995) [N/A]
Featuring:
Mirjana Jokovic, Jim Helsinger, Caren Alpert
Written by:
Richard Brody
Directed by:
Richard Brody
Release Date:
June 9, 1995
Original Title:
Liability Crisis
Genres:
Comedy | Drama
Production Companies:
Wilkesfilms
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 78
Paul (Jim Helsinger) is a morose young advertising executive and aspiring film maker whose obsession with the Holocaust has gone way out of control. Paul has been compiling interviews with World War II survivors for a documentary film, and the project has propelled him to a state of paranoia. Listening to Beethoven, Paul worries that the composer wrote "Nazi music" and imagines that the plush sound on a Furtwangler recording owes to the violins' strings having been made out of "Jewish intestines." When his Yugoslav-born fiancee Dunia (Mirjana Jokovic) returns from China, where she has been studying, the two enter into an agonizing debate about whether to marry. She bluntly questions Paul's religious convictions, since he doesn't observe Orthodox Jewish traditions.
Paul is a young Jewish man whose obsession with the Holocaust interferes with his love life. His long-distance relationship with Dunia, a non-Jewish woman from the former Yugoslavia is threatened by his readiness to see Hitler everywhere, even in himself. When Dunia finally makes the trip to New York, Paul must overcome his detached intellectualism and make an emotional leap.
