Ezer Kenegdo (2017)
A friendship at odds with history, and two histories at odds with a friendship.
101 min
Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish-born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art-world iconoclast named Harry Kierk seeks to destroy a lifetime's worth of his own work. As the visit progresses, Izzy and Marek discover for the first time that complex historical baggage impinges on their curious friendship and, soon, they begin to understand why Kierk is driven towards destruction. Continued encounters with Marek's vaguely anti-Semitic cousin Irek (who is their only gateway to contact Kierk) only compound these tensions.
- Release date
- October 27, 2017
- Country of origin
- Not yet available · likely United States (estimated from cast and crew)
Cast
- Daniel Kremer as Yisroel 'Izzy' Jonigkeyt
- Deniz Demirer as Marek Wisniewski
- Rob Nilsson as Harry Kierk
- Josh Safdie as Levi
- Kris Caltagirone as Irek Stuhr
- Blair Brienza as Leah Devorah Salazer
- William Cully Allen as Rabbi Spieler
- K.J. Linhein as Rabbi Topin
- Penny Werner as Minnie
- Shelley Caltagirone as Audrey
Crew
- Deniz Demirer · Director
- Daniel Kremer · Director
- Deniz Demirer · Writer
- Daniel Kremer · Writer
- Deniz Demirer · Producer
- Daniel Kremer · Producer
- Jeff Kao · Cinematographer
- Gustavo Ochoa · Cinematographer
- Daniel Kremer · Editor