Pete and Toshi Get a Camera

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Pete and Toshi Get a Camera (2015)

Directed by William Eigen

Documentary · 1h 28m

55 years ago Pete Seeger didn't name names at the McCarthy hearings and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Out on appeal, blacklisted, watched by the FBI, he buys an old camera. With his wife Toshi, they start filming their musician friends. After several years of making small films, they decide to take the family around-the-world to film musicians in the most remote corners of the earth. The historic 16mm footage is intercut with modern day interviews of the family as they lend insight into a time & place that doesn't exist today. Part travelogue, part musical odyssey, part ethnocentric dream, "Pete and Toshi Get a Camera" will take you places you would never have imagined.

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Cast

Crew

Director
William Eigen
Screenplay
William Eigen

Details

Release date
2015-05-28
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN