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Trailer
The Sturgeon Queens
6.0
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0h 53m
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2014
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Released
Overview
Four generations of a Jewish immigrant family create Russ and Daughters, a Lower East Side lox and herring emporium that survives and thrives. Produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the store, this documentary features an extensive interview with two of the original daughters for whom the store was named, now 100 and 92 years old, and interviews with prominent enthusiasts of the store including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, chef Mario Batali, New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, and 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer. Rather than a conventional narrator, the filmmakers bring together six colorful longtime fans of the store, in their 80s and 90s, who sit around a table of fish reading the script in the style of a passover Seder. - Written by Julie Cohen

Cast
Josh Russ Tupper poster
Josh Russ Tupper
Self
Hattie Gold poster
Hattie Gold
Self
Niki Russ Federman poster
Niki Russ Federman
Self
Anne Russ Federman poster
Anne Russ Federman
Self
Morley Safer poster
Morley Safer
Self
Calvin Trillin poster
Calvin Trillin
Self
Ruth Bader Ginsburg poster
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Self
Maggie Gyllenhaal poster
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Self

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