- Country: Canada
- Genres: Biography, Documentary, Short
- Release:
- Director: Noam Gonick
- Writers: Noam Gonick
- Language: English
- Stars: Blane Cypurda , Ruth De Graves , Matthew Kennedy (VI) , Louis Negin
- Runtime: 11 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Hirsch (Canada)
- Plot: Objects found by children in an attic tell the story of the father of Canadian theatre, John Hirsch. His deathbed interview is listened to on reel-to-reel by a ten year-old watching his friends and babysitter play video games and unearth Hirsch's belongings. As a teenage World War II orphan, Hirsch came to Winnipeg from Europe, his only possession a suitcase puppet show. He became an agitator for culture on the Canadian prairies, co-founding the Manitoba Theatre Centre and going to to direct New York's Lincoln Center. He died in Toronto in 1989 at 59 from complications due to AIDS.
- IMDB:tt1653011


Hirsch Cast
Noam Gonick
Director
Blane Cypurda
Ruth De Graves
Interviewer

Matthew Kennedy
(VI)

Louis Negin
John Hirsch