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Witness 11

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Genre
  
Short, Biography, Drama

Running time
  
21 minutes

Screenplay
  
Sean Mitchell

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Sean Mitchell

Duration
  

Music director
  
Larry Groupe

Writer
  
Sean Mitchell

Language
  
English

Release date
  
2012

Cast
  
Oleg Liptsin, Paul Guadarrama, AJ Anable

Producers
  
Sean Mitchell, Helen Jang Mitchell

Witness 11 is a 2012 short dramatic film based on the testimony of renowned German poet and playwright, Bertolt Brecht, during the height of the 1940s Red Scare. It was directed by Sean Mitchell, and stars Oleg Liptsin, Paul Guadarrama and Matt Shelton.

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The film was shot in 2012 at the Berkeley City Club in Berkeley, California.

Plot

Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. (HUAC) during their notorious Hollywood Ten investigation, famed German playwright Bertolt Brecht must choose between betraying himself and his friends, and imprisonment. In the end, Brecht testified that he had never been a member of the Communist Party.

Cast

  • Oleg Liptsin as Bertolt Brecht
  • Paul Guadarrama as Robert E. Stripling
  • Matt Shelton as Dalton Trumbo
  • Tatjana Dzambazova as Helene Brecht
  • Dean Enciroli as J. Parnell Thomas
  • Philip Estrin as Green
  • John Scacco as Rep. Vail
  • Steven Mann as Herbert Biberman
  • Fritz Zimmerman as Baumgardt
  • David Rosenthal as John Howard Lawson
  • Bret Grantham as Bartley Crum
  • Juliet Hilton as Barbara Brecht

    • References

    Witness 11 Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Witness 11 IMDb