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Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox

Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox

6,9 /10 (8 Votes)
2007 EN 88 min

Overview

A human story about a socially responsible company, “Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox” documents the complicated family legacy behind the counterculture’s favorite cleaning product — Bronner’s son, 68-year-old Ralph, endured over 15 orphanages and foster homes as a child, but despite difficult memories, is his father’s most ardent fan.

Release date

29/06/2007

Votes

8

Popularity

0.4

A documentary about obsession, compassion and all-purpose soap.

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

88 min

Revenue

$18

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CRCulver

2018-09-06

⭐ 7

DR BRONNER'S MAGIC SOAPBOX is a documentary on the life and thought of Emmanuel Bronner (1908-1997), the German immigrant who made the soap popular with 1960s counter-culture and now alternative people everywhere. Dr. Bronner infamously covered his soap labels with rambling statements in tiny print, preaching the unity of mankind in an "all-one-god religion". This is an individual with a fascinating story, well worth a documentary film. He left Germany before the Holocaust (in which his parents perished), worked as a chemist before being hospitalized in Elgin Asylum, and escaped to California …

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