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Red Father

Tova Beck-Friedman Director

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    RED FATHER follows the life of Bernard Ades, a Communist, Jewish lawyer raised in Baltimore and radicalized by the Great Depression.

    Set against the backdrop of the pre-civil rights era, the film follows Ades as he seeks to end systemic legal racism in Maryland, fights Fascism with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and becomes a target himself during the dark days of America's McCarthyism.