Liability Crisis (1995)
75 min
Paul (Jim Helsinger) is a morose young advertising executive and aspiring film maker whose obsession with the Holocaust has gone way out of control. Paul has been compiling interviews with World War II survivors for a documentary film, and the project has propelled him to a state of paranoia. Listening to Beethoven, Paul worries that the composer wrote "Nazi music" and imagines that the plush sound on a Furtwangler recording owes to the violins' strings having been made out of "Jewish intestines." When his Yugoslav-born fiancee Dunia (Mirjana Jokovic) returns from China, where she has been studying, the two enter into an agonizing debate about whether to marry. She bluntly questions Paul's religious convictions, since he doesn't observe Orthodox Jewish traditions.
- Release date
- June 9, 1995
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Mirjana Joković as Dunja
- Jim Helsinger as Paul
- Caren Alpert as Susie
- Sidney Annis as Father
- R. Ward Duffy as Larry
- Claudia Kaye
- Rebecca Segers as Medical Examiner
- Shari Meg Seidman as Wendy
- Sylvia Weber as Mother
Crew
- Richard Brody · Director
- Richard Brody · Writer
- Liz McBee · Producer
- Francine Trester · Composer
- Jamie Maxtone-Graham · Cinematographer
- Richard Brody · Editor