Poto and Cabengo
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Grace and Virginia are young San Diego twins who speak unlike anyone else. With little exposure to the outside world, the two girls have created a private form of communication that’s an amalgam of the distinctive English dialects they hear at home. Jean-Pierre Gorin’s polyphonic nonfiction investigation of this phenomenon looks at the family from a variety of angles, with the director taking on the role of a sort of sociological detective. It’s a delightful and absorbing study of words and faces, mass media and personal isolation, and America’s odd margins.
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Cast
- Grace Kennedy
- Featuring
- Virginia Kennedy
- Tom Kennedy
- Christine Kennedy
- Paula Künert
Credits
- Director
- Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Produced by
- Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
- Produced by
- Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Narrator
- Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Additional narration
- Sheila Sharp
- Additional narration
- Hans Teuchart
- Camera
- Les Blank
- Camera assistant
- Greg Durbin
- Still photography
- Maureen Gosling
- Still photography
- Judith Spiegel
- Editor
- Greg Durbin
- Editing assistants
- Laraine Mestman
- Editing assistants
- Clay Walker
- Sound
- Maureen Gosling
- Sound editing assistants
- Lynn Burnstan
- Sound editing assistants
- Anna Boorstin
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