Zelig (1983) - film review

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Zelig is an American film comedy first released in 1983, directed by Woody Allen. The film stars Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Buckwalter, Patrick Horgan and Marvin Chatinover. Our overall rating for this film is: very good.

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Credits

Director: Woody Allen
Script: Woody Allen
Photo: Gordon Willis
Music: Dick Hyman
Cast: Woody Allen (Leonard Zelig), Mia Farrow (Dr. Eudora Nesbitt Fletcher), John Buckwalter (Dr. Sindell), Patrick Horgan (The Narrator), Marvin Chatinover (Glandular Diagnosis Doctor), Stanley Swerdlow (Mexican Food Doctor), Paul Nevens (Dr. Birsky), Howard Erskine (Hypodermic Doctor), Ralph Bell (Other Doctor), Richard Whiting (Other Doctor), Will Hussong (Other Doctor), Robert Iglesia (Man in Barber Chair), Eli Resnick (Man in Park), Edward McPhillips (Scotsman), Gale Hansen (Freshman #1), Michael Jeter (Freshman #2), Peter McRobbie (Workers Rally Speaker), Sol Lomita (Martin Geist, Ruth’s Lover), Mary Louise Wilson (Ruth, Zelig’s Half-sister), Alice Beardsley (Telephone Operator), Paula Trueman (Woman on Telephone), Ed Lane (Man on Telephone), Marianne Tatum (Actress Fletcher), Charles Denny (Actor Doctor), Michael Kell (Actor Koslow), Garrett M. Brown (Actor Zelig), Sharon Ferrol-Young (Miss Baker), Richard Litt (Charles Koslow), Dimitri Vassilopoulos (Martinez), John Rothman (Paul Deghuee, Eudora’s Cousin), Stephanie Farrow (Meryl Fletcher), Francis Beggins (City Hall Speaker), Jean Trowbridge (Mrs. Catherine Fletcher), Ken Chapin (On-Camera Interviewer), Gerald Klein (Hearst Guest), Vincent Jerosa (Hearst Guest), Deborah Rush (Lita Fox, One of Zelig’s wives), Stanley Simmonds (Lita’s Lawyer), Robert Berger (Zelig’s Lawyer), Jeanine Jackson (Helen Gray, Claims Zelig is father of her children), Erma Campbell (Zelig’s Wife), Anton Marco (Wrist Victim), Louise Deitch (House-Painting Victim), Bernice Dowis (Vilification Woman), John Doumanian (Greek Waiter), Will Holt (Rally Chancellor), Bernie Herold (Carter Dean), Susan Sontag (Herself), Irving Howe (Himself), Saul Bellow (Himself), Bricktop (Herself), Bruno Bettelheim (Himself), John Morton Blum (Himself), Marshall Coles Sr. (Calvin Turner), Ellen Garrison (Older Dr. Eudora Fletcher), Jack Cannon (Mike Geibell), Theodore R. Smits (Ted Bierbauer), Sherman Loud (Older Paul Deghuee), Elizabeth Rothschild (Older Sister Meryl Fletcher), Kuno Sponholz (Oswald Pohl), Ed Herlihy (Pathe News newsreel narrator), Dwight Weist (Hearst Metrotone newsreel narrator), Gordon Gould (Radio newscaster), Wendell Craig (Universal Newsreel narrator), Jurgen Kuehn (U.F.A. newsreel narrator), George Hamlin (Experimental Drugs Doctor), Kim Johnston Ulrich (Beauty Contestant), Max Amann (Himself (with Hitler and Streicher) (unconfirmed)), Josephine Baker (Herself), Michael Blevins (Lizard Dancer), Fanny Brice (Herself), Wilhelm Brückner (Himself (walks behind Hitler)), Al Capone (Himself), Charles Chaplin (Himself), Marion Davies (Herself), Dolores del Rio (Herself), Sepp Dietrich (Himself (with Hitler and Streicher)), Marie Dressler (Herself), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Himself), Lou Gehrig (Himself), Josef Goebbels (Himself), Hermann Göring (Himself), Harold ’Red’ Grange (Himself), William Randolph Hearst (Himself), Rudolf Hess (Himself), Adolf Hitler (Himself), Willy Holt (A chancellor), Elizabeth Kaitan (German Girl), Robert Ley (Himself (with Goebbels)), Charles A. Lindbergh (Himself), Carole Lombard (Herself), Adolphe Menjou (Himself), Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (Himself (with Hitler and Streicher)), Mae Questel (Helen Kane), Billy Rose (Himself), Julius Schaub (Himself (walks behind Hitler)), Gregor Strasser (Himself (with back to Hitler)), Julius Streicher (Himself (with Hitler and Hess)), Franz von Epp (Himself (with Goebbels and Ley)), Jimmy Walker (Himself (mayor of New York)), Claire Windsor (Herself)
Country: USA
Language: English / German
Runtime: 79 min; B&W

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