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The Light Ahead : Based on a Novel by S.Y. Abramotvitch

Ulmer, Edgar G. [Regisseur] ; Contner, J. Burgi [Kameramann] ; Hyland, Edward [Kameramann] ; [et al.]

Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: Yiddish

Pages: 1 DVD-Video (95 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Uniform Title: Fishke der Krumer

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Abstract: David Opatoshu ("Exodus", "Torn Curtain") made his film debut as Fishke, a lame young man hopelessly in love with a blind orphan girl (Helen Beverley) in cholera-obsessed Glubsk (e.g. Foolstown). The impoverished couple dream of life in the big city of Odessa free from the shtetl's poverty and stifling old-world prejudices. The benevolent and enlightened bookseller Mendele (Isidore Cashier as Mendele Mokher Sforim) helps them, turning small-town superstitions to their advantage. This 1939 Yiddish film classic, made on the eve of World War II, is at once romantic, expressionist, and painfully conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. Audaciously adapted from the work of novelist S.Y. Abramovitch (1836-1917), whom Sholem Aleichem dubbed the grandfather of Yiddish literature, this luminous allegory of escape marries Edgar Ulmer's masterful direction (and set design) with superb acting by members of New York's Artef and Yiddish Art Theaters. Film historian J. Hoberman calls Beverley and Opatoshu "perhaps the most beautiful couple in the history of Yiddish cinema ... their scenes have a touching erotic chemistry". [jewishfilm.org]

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The Singing Blacksmith : Based on a Play by David Pinski

Ulmer, Edgar G. [Regisseur] ; Miller, William [Kameramann] ; Oysher, Moishe [Schauspieler] ; [et al.]

Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: Yiddish

Pages: 1 DVD-Video (107 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Uniform Title: Yankl der Schmid

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Abstract: Moishe Oysher, the renowned cantor and star of Yiddish radio, stars in Edgar G. Ulmer's musical version of David Pinski's play "Yankl der Shmid". Singing, dancing, and flashing his eyes, Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Recently rediscovered footage makes this the most complete extant version of Ulmer's lively folk operetta, replete with an example of Yiddish swing. [jewishfilm.org]

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American Matchmaker

Ulmer, Edgar G. [Regisseur] ; Contner, J. Burgi [Kameramann] ; Fuchs, Leo [Schauspieler] ; [et al.]

Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: Yiddish

Pages: 1 DVD-Video (87 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Uniform Title: American Shadkhn

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Abstract: Leo Fuchs, known on Second Avenue as "the Yiddish Fred Astaire", plays an elegant and eligible bachelor who can never seem to close the marriage deal. Edgar G. Ulmer's last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation. With its urbane, neurotic hero, "American Matchmaker" looks ahead to the films of Woody Allen. [jewishfilm.org]

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Note: I Want to be a Boarder [Ich vil zeyn a Boarder] (1937) , jidd. mit engl. UT

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Green Fields : Based on a Play by Peretz Hirshbein

Ulmer, Edgar G. [Regisseur] ; Ben-Ami, Jacob [Regisseur] ; Contner, J. Burgi [Kameramann] ; [et al.]

Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: Yiddish

Pages: 1 DVD-Video (99 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Uniform Title: Grine felder

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Abstract: In Edgar G. Ulmer's soulful open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play, an ascetic young scholar ventures into the Lithuanian countryside, searching for "true Jews". One of the most critically acclaimed and beloved of American Yiddish talkies, "Green Fields" celebrates an idyllic world of tribal wholeness and innate piety. Rarely has a film represented the shtetl with such lyricism. [jewishfilm.org]

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