Yentl [DVD] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Barwood Films ; Ladbroke Investments ; produced by Rusty Lemorande, Barbra Streisand ; screenplay by Jack Rosenthal and Barbra Streisand ; directed by Barbra Streisand.
Based on the story "Yentl, the Yeshiva boy" by Isaac Bashevis Singer. DVD release of the 1983 motion picture. Special features: Disc one: Feature film: extended cut & theatrical version ; audio commentary by Barbra Streisand and Rusty Lemorande ; deleted scenes -- Disc two: Introduction by Barbra Streisand ; "The director's reel" featurette ; the rehearsal process with materials from Barbra's archives ; "My wonderful cast and crew" featurette ; deleted song storyboard sequences ; Barbra's 8mm concept film with optional naration ; still galleries. Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff.
Summary:
Yentl is the daughter of a kindly scholar, a man able to instill in her a love of learning as deep as his own. In turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe, however, women are denied higher education. Yentl disguises herself as a young man in order to gain entrance to a Yeshiva, an orthodox Jewish school.
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