Zelig

1983

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7.4 из 10

897 votes

Popularity

4.2

Duration

79 min / 1 hour 19 min

Budget

$13 500 000

Fees in the world

$11 798 616

In collections

68

Release date

1983.07.15

Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.

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Cast

Dr. Eudora Nesbitt Fletcher

The Narrator (voice)

John Buckwalter

Marvin Chatinover

Glandular Diagnosis Doctor

Stanley Swerdlow

Mexican Food Doctor

Hypodermic Doctor

Richard Whiting

Workers Rally Speaker

Mary Louise Wilson

Alice Beardsley

Telephone Operator

Woman on Telephone

Garrett M. Brown

Actress Fletcher

Stanley Simmonds

Jeanine Jackson

Rally Chancellor

Susan Sontag - Contemporary Interviews

Saul Bellow - Contemporary Interviews

Irving Howe - Contemporary Interviews

Marshall Cole Sr.

Calvin Turner - Contemporary Interviews

Older Dr. Fletcher - Contemporary Interviews

Mike Geibell - Contemporary Interviews

Theodore R. Smits

Ted Bierbauer - Contemporary Interviews

Older Paul Deghuee - Contemporary Interviews

Elizabeth Rothschild

Older Sister Meryl Fletcher - Contemporary Interviews

Oswald Pohl - Contemporary Interviews

Pathe News Announcer (voice)

Hearst Metrotone Announcer (voice)

Experimental Drugs Doctor

Man in Barber Chair

Edward McPhillips

Man on Telephone

Sharon Ferrol-Young

Dimitri Vassilopoulos

Stephanie Farrow

Francis Beggins

City Hall Speaker

Jean Trowbridge

Dr. Fletcher's Mother

On-Camera Interviewer

Vincent Jerman-Jerosa

House-Painting Victim

Vilification Woman

Elizabeth Kaitan

German Girl (uncredited)

Arthur Anderson

Other Doctor (uncredited)

Bubba Dean Rambo

Charleston Dancer (uncredited)

Kim Johnston Ulrich

Beauty Contestant (uncredited)

Michael Blevins

Lizard Dancer (uncredited)

Reporter (uncredited)

Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited)

Ruth Leon Weiman

Mother of a Graduate (uncredited)

Police Officer (uncredited)

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