The jester = Der Purimspieler / produced by Green Films ; Sphinx Films ; screenplay, Chaver-Paver and Joseph Green ; direction, Joseph Green and Jan Nowina Przybylski.
Publisher:
Ergo Media Inc.,
Copyright Date:
2002
Description:
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
"The Joseph Green Yiddish film collector's edition." -- Container. Miriam Kressyn, Zygmund Turkow, Hymie Jacobson. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1937. A foreign film (Poland). Special features: Audio interviews with Joseph Green and Miriam Kressyn ; introduction by Yiddish film historian Dr. Eric Goldman ; production credits, photo gallery ; filmography/biography ; interactive menus ; scene access.
Summary:
A romantic comedy about a drifter, who wanders from shtetl to shtetl. He finds brief happiness when he falls in love with a shoemaker's daughter in a small Galician town in this likable fantasy about a love triangle and man's quest for the unobtainable.
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