1983 · drama · political · history
Daniel
Directed by Sidney Lumet2h 10m1983
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
Our read: Daniel (1983) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · political · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / political, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
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