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- Release date: July 15, 1983
- Director: Woody Allen
- Screenwriter: Woody Allen
- Producers: Robert Greenhut and Charles H. Joffe
- Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
- MPAA rating: PG
- Run time: 79 minutes
- Awards: Best Cinematography: New York Film Critics Circle MTV: [1]
- While this film was in post-production, Allen directed A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy and Broadway Danny Rose
- Features "interviews" with Susan Sontag, Saul Bellow and Irving Howe
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The 1983 mockumentary Zelig stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, a "human chameleon" with the ability to blend in with any people he is around. The film, which was also written and directed by Allen, uses special effects to place Zelig into old newsreel footage alongside historical figures like Herbert Hoover and Adolf Hitler.
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Plot Summary
The film, which opens in the 1920s, takes the form of a documentary recounting the strange tale of human chameleon Leonard Zelig. He's being treated for his strange condition by a caring psychiatrist, played by Allen's then-girlfriend Mia Farrow. After she manages to cure Zelig, the two fall in love and become minor celebrities.



