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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a 1974 Canadian comedy drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, and adapted by Mordechai Richler and Lionel Chetwynd from Richler’s 1959 novel. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as the title character, a brash young Jewish Montrealer who embarks on a string of get-rich-quick schemes in a bid to gain respect.
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends.
With Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid. In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
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- Ted Kotcheff
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- Richard Dreyfuss
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) There’s a little bit of Duddy Kravitz in everyone. Richard Dreyfuss ( Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind ) is an irresistible young Jewish man in 1948 Montreal.
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The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends.
