Algren
2021
· ⭐ 6 · Votes: 1
Algren will spotlight the hard-knock life and authentic creative legacy of one of the most underrated writers of the twentieth century Nelson Algren. Algren's brutally honest portrayal of the American underclass and his hard-nosed lifestyle became his pathway to compassion. Through interviews with Algren contemporaries experts and "literary soulmates" as well as through the photography of Algren's friends Art Shay and Stephen Deutch the film will tell his story. It will celebrate his tremendous contribution to and influence on American letters and push Algren champion of the marginalized out from the margins.
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