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Features: DVD
Editor's Note
This documentary follows three years in the life of Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita. A Russian immigrant living in Brooklyn, ORTHODOX STANCE follows the 24 year old from the synagogue to the boxing ring as he tries to balance his professional boxing career with the strictures of his faith.
| Features | For the last 60 years, the term "Jewish boxer" has been an oxymoron. But Dmitriy Salita, a 25 year-old Russian immigrant is making history as a top professional boxer and a rigorously observant Jew. While providing an intimate, 3-year long look at the trials and tribulations faced by an up and coming professional boxer, ORTHODOX STANCE is a portrait of seemingly incompatible cultures and characters--boxing promoters, trainers and Orthodox Rabbis--working together to support Dmitriy's rare and remarkable devotion to both Orthodox Judaism and the pursuit of a professional boxing title. In the end, the film is about more than just boxing and religion, but a young man's search for meaning in life. |
| At a time when religion increasingly divides and destroys, Orthodox Stance presents a unique, yet universal, story that provides an example for Jews and non-Jews of the positive effects of faith, tolerance, diversity and pluralism-the things people talk about when they talk about the greatness of America. |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: VICTOR MULTIMEDIA-05 |
| Release Date: 4/14/2009 |
| Running Time: 82 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2008 | | Catalog ID: 3495 | | UPC: 00845637000524 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew | Mark Orton - Composer | | Rachel Kittner - Editor | | Jason Hutt - Editor | | Dmitriy Salita - Subject | | Jason Hutt - Producer | | Jason Hutt - Director of Photography | | Jason Hutt - Director |
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