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Lasry Pierre
Born and educated in Morocco, Pierre Lasry immigrated to Canada in 1957. He began a variety of film projects in the 1960s, including Stanley Kubrick's French, Spanish and Portuguese version of Dr. Strangelove. In 1966 his first feature film, The Drifter, was shown at the Venice, Cannes, and Chicago film festivals. His work as an independent filmmaker and with the NFB has often focussed on the relationship of the outsider to the world: single parenthood, unemployment and mental illness are some of his subjects. With Shylock, Pierre Lasry explores the archetype of the Jew as ritual murderer-usurer and the origins of the oldest and most devastating myths of Christian Europe.
