Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish [videorecording] / Vilna City Films presents ; written, produced, and directed by Eve Annenberg ; produced by Lazer Weis, Mendy Zafir, Ruth OBrien.
Melissa "Malky" Weisz, Lazer Weiss, Eve Annenberg, Mendy Zafir, Joeli "Bubbles" Weiss, Josef Friedman, Yelena Shmulenson. Originally released as a motion picture in 2010.
Summary:
The play Romeo and Juliet has been translated around the world. Now this gritty, funny new feature film retells William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in Yiddish. A middle-aged ER nurse, Ava, in graduate school--and bitterly lapsed observant Jew--undertakes a Yiddish translation of Shakespeare's great classic, Romeo and Juliet. Meanwhile, her houseguest, also a Hasidic dropout, is "leaking" Kabbalistic magic, and enchants her studio apartment. In what might be the first Yiddish "mumblecore" film, Annenberg creates a parallel universe (aka Williamsburg, Brooklyn), where Romeo and Juliet stem from divergent streams of ultra-orthodox Judaism and speak their lines in street-smart Yiddish.
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