Fishka der krimmer = The light ahead--Fishke the lame / National Center for Jewish Film presents ; National Center for Jewish Film; Rutenberg and Everett Yiddish Film Library, in association with The American Jewish Historical Society, and Brandeis Universtiy presents ; adaptations & dialogue, Chaver Paver; screenplay, Sherle and Edgar G. Ulmer; directed by Edgar G. Ulmer; an Ultra Film Distributors release.
Publisher:
National Center for Jewish FilmBrandeis University,
Copyright Date:
1993
Description:
1 videocassette (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Isidore Cashier, Helen Beverley, David Opatoshu. Adaptation of 2 works by S.Y. Abramovitsh (1836-1971). Originally produced as a motion picture in 1939, restored 1982. "The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish Film Library of the National Center for Jewish Film presents"--Container.
Summary:
Innocent, impoverished lovers are beset by the superstition, prejudice and greed present in a late nineteenth century shtetl in tsarist Russia. A benevolent and enlightened bookseller helps and encourages them in their dream of escaping to a freer life in Odessa.
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