A Life Apart: Hassidim in America (DVD)

In this extraordinarily intimate film, seven years in the making, we are taken into the depths of the Hsidim's joyous, sometimes harsh,a dn often beautiful world. From mystical tales to mesmerizing music, Rebbes to Holocaust survivors, A Life Apart reveals a strange, insular world few outsiders have seen, and fewer yet could imagine. (1997)

DVD Features: Extended PBS Interview with Directors, Directors's commentary track, Filmmaker biographies, Interactive menus, Scene access

Produced and Directed by: Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky

"Extraordinary!" --New York Times

"Startlingly intimate…Profoundly important!" --New York Post

"Miraculous!" --Boston Phoenix

"Beautiful, mysterious & mesmerizing." --San Francisco Bay Guardian

95 min. * Color * English