The Dog
- language: English
- director: Allison Berg Frank Keraudren
- writer: John Wojtowicz
Synopsis:
An astonishing documentary portrait of the late John Wojtowicz, whose attempted robbery of a Brooklyn bank to finance his male lover’s sex-reassignment surgery was the real-life inspiration for the classic Al Pacino film Dog Day Afternoon.
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