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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.
Rated: B • Aug 30, 2022. In this fictional documentary, a man achieves notoriety for his ability to look and act like anyone he meets. With his unique talent for mimicry, Zelig (Woody Allen ...
Dec 22, 2011 · R eleased in 1983, Woody Allen's mockumentary drama Zelig was in some quarters regarded as a one-joke technical novelty. But in 2011, it looks like a masterpiece: a brilliant, even passionate ...
Apr 1, 2020 · ZELIG is a 1983 American mockumentary film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Allen and Mia Farrow. Allen plays Leonard Zelig, a nondescript enigma, who, out of his desire to fit...
This film, set in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, is an early example of the mockumentary genre and is in some ways Allen's most ambitious technical achievement. The character of Leonard Zelig, played by Allen, is a "human chameleon"; a strange disorder causes his persona to change to fit in with the people around him.
Jul 15, 1983 · He is Woody Allen's most brilliant, most inspired fictional creation, and the movie that contains him, called simply ''Zelig,'' is the writer-director-actor's most brilliant work. Though...
Jul 18, 1983 · Told in the form of an old-fashioned documentary, ''Zelig'' is set during the late 1920's and 30's, those theatrical decades that saw America's gaudy spree of frivolity sink into the shadows of...
