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Professor

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Director(s)	Daniel Kraus
Release Date	2010
Work In Progress	No
Runtime	75 min
Format(s)	DVD
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	No

Film Description

Professor and Rabbi Jay Holstein is one of the University of Iowa’s most popular Professors. Now, a stunning documentary from an acclaimed filmmaker reveals his unorthodox brilliance to everyone. As a portrait of a Jewish intellectual in the middle of the country, Professor is an essential title for all American libraries.

Professor is directed by acclaimed filmmaker (and Fairfield, Iowa native) Daniel Kraus. Hailed by Movieline magazine as well as by Tribecafilm, and presented in a full Daniel Kraus retrospective at the Gene Siskel Film Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Professor is a brilliant portrait of the paradoxes and glories of American culture.

A college education has become part of the American dream. But what are we learning and who is teaching us?

For nearly four decades, Rabbi Jay Holstein has been one of the University of Iowa’s most popular professors. With a foul mouth, a raunchy sense of humor, and a piercing brilliance, Holstein uses massive 500-student lectures to turn inside-out the most fundamental assumptions on topics as divergent as sex, suicide, and the Holocaust. His courses, including “Quest for Human Destiny,” have become the stuff of campus legend, and between firing a Glock and running 10 miles per day, the 69-year-old Holstein spends his office hours wrestling with students over animal experimentation, alcohol use, and homosexuality.

Following the internationally acclaimed cinéma vérité of Sheriff and Musician, Professor tackles intellectual labor and in doing so grapples with some of life’s greatest and most elemental enigmas.

Professor is the third film in Daniel Kraus’ WORK Series, a set of independent documentaries designed to create an on-going record of the American worker.

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Last Updated On:	October 04, 2010