• Director(s):

    FAIGENBAUM (Stephen)

  • Producer(s):

    TS PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Europe.

  • Production year:

    2021

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Newark, a river across NY, has always been in the shadow of the city of light. This is the history of a the city of Newark revealed through the story of two families, those of Black writer Amiri Baraka and famous Jewish writer Philip Roth as they struggle with the meaning of American identity.

This documentary explores the forgotten history of the city. Newark lies just across the river from New York, in the shadow of Manhattan, its particularity mostly lost to forgetting. Set against the rise and fall, the film recounts the histories of two Newark writers’ families, the Afro-American Amiri Baraka, the other Jewish, that of Philip Roth. Their generational destinies inescapably intertwined with Newark’s prosperity and decline.