Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

(2017)

★ 8 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Documentary, Music

Year: 2017

Runtime: 52 мин

Country: Canada

Director: Larry Weinstein

Cast: Larry Weinstein, Kang Ho, Steven Page, Gaston Poon, Decker Williams, Jeremy Salzman, Jenna Harris, Franc-Anton Harwart, Dione Taylor, Aviva Chernick

Plot

An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity’s most musical holiday. It’s an amazing tale of immigrant outsiders who became irreplaceable players in pop culture’s mainstream – a generation of songwriters who found in Christmas the perfect holiday in which to imagine a better world, and for at least one day a year, make us believe.