William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

The documentary is about the lawyer William Kunstler. Kunstler was among the well known jurists of the twentieth century. Martin Luther King Jr. was among his clients. Malcolm X, Abbie Hoffman and Stokely Carmichael were also among those he defended. Phillip and Daniel Berrigan, H. Rap Brown, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Leonard Peltier are on that list too. The film was made by his two daughters. Emily and Sarah Kunstler tell the course their father took. He began as a middle class family man. Then he became a lawyer for the movements. Over the years he took on cases that drew hostility. He became a disliked figure in America. His daughters question that change at close range. The account holds admiration and criticism side by side. The documentary is a portrait of a father as well. William Kunstler appears in the eighty five minute documentary. It is an American production Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler finished in 2009.