FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival (2008)
This sweeping documentary portrait traces the evolution of one of America’s most influential legal minds from his youth in Louisville, Kentucky, through his years as a Boston attorney crusading for progressive reforms, to his controversial appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
Archival film material and interviews with Brandeis biographers and other scholars, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reveal a man whose personal experiences shaped his innovative approach to legal issues, from his groundbreaking defense of the right to privacy and workers rights to his attacks on the excesses of big business and political corruption.
Directed by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Charles Stuart, Louis Brandeis: The People’s Attorney is a moving and illuminating exploration of one of the nation’s most effective progressive voices, a man who sought and succeed in breathing life into the law.
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