Louie

1983

30min

Louis Gzinterman runs a dry goods store on Bleeker Street in Greenwich Village. He gives food and shelter to homeless, unemployed and transient young men who are "kind of lost." Louis is foster father to "his boys," many of whom now have children of their own and still correspond with their one-time benefactor. Now in his eighties, Louis shows no signs of relinquishing his charitable work. This portrait records his daily routine at home and in his tiny store.