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Elis Island Tales is a french film of genre Documentary directed by Robert Bober

Elis Island Tales (1980)

Elis Island Tales
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Length 1h40
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OriginFrance
Rating74% 3.7305053.7305053.7305053.7305053.730505

Ellis Island Revisited: Tales of Vagrancy and Hope (French Récits d'Ellis Island: histoires d'errance et d'espoir) is the first documentary film directed by Robert Bober, filmed in New York in 1979 and broadcast by the French television channel TF1 on November 25 and 26, 1980. The script was written by the French writer Georges Perec, who also provided the commentary of the first part of the film and conducted the interviews in the second part.
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