In this fictional documentary, a man achieves notoriety for his ability to look and act like whoever he's around. Becoming a celebrity in his own right, he then inspires a song, a dance craze, and a Warner Bros.
15 March 1921, Indiana, USA
13 July 1907, Brooklyn, New York, USA
October 29, 1891 in New York City, New York, USA
February 12, 1885 in Fleinhausen, Bavaria, Germany
November 9, 1868 in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
24 April 1905, Jackson, Michigan, USA
10 June 1915, Lachine, Québec, Canada [now Lachine, Montréal, Québec, Canada]
6 March 1940, Elmira, New York, USA
18 January 1912, New York, USA
June 3, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
16 April 1889, Walworth, London, England, UK
25 July 1922, Davenport, Iowa, USA
April 29, 1863 in San Francisco, California, USA
26 May 1929, Nottingham, England, UK
4 May 1930, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 September 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
1960
1960
28 March 1925, Richmond, Virginia, USA
3 June 1949, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
18 February 1951, Houston, Texas, USA
17 July 1899, New York City, New York, USA
18 January 1944, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
December 08, 2006
Hilarious Woody Allen vehicle, a mockumentary with special effects ahead of its time.
June 24, 2006
The comedy tends to the smirk-inducing rather than the laugh-out-loud, and the second half wanders somewhat, but Zelig is a strong contender for Allen's most fascinating film.
May 20, 2003
Zelig is small but it's one of those Allen comedies by which all his other films will be compared.
May 01, 2017
A sublime comic parable about the quest for identity.
December 22, 2011
A masterpiece: a brilliant, even passionate historical pastiche, a superbly pregnant meditation on American society and individuality, and an eerie fantasy that will live in your dreams.
July 31, 2004
Brilliant early film of the woodman shows his creative genius as a filmmaker.
February 24, 2004
Mildly amusing one-joke move.
July 02, 2005
Woody Allen's comedy about a self-effacing man, who swiftly changes identities is original, clever, droll, and extremely well shot by ace lenser Gordon Willis.
January 17, 2006
Allen is one of the most recognizable, and least protean, performers.... [P]erhaps ... someone else as Zelig ... could have got the idea across without the blandly explicit dialogue and brought more dimensions to the role, besides.
July 07, 2010
Lampooning documentary tradition by structuring the entire film as a meticulously crafted bogus docu, Woody Allen tackles some serious stuff en route
September 08, 2007
Woody Allen's Zelig (1983) perfected the fake documentary a year before This Is Spinal Tap.
