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The Return of Nathan Becker (2009)

Shpis, Boris [Regisseur] ; Milman, Rashel [Regisseur] ; Mikhajlov, Yevgeni [Kameramann] ; [et al.]

Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 1 DVD-Video (85 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Year of publication: 2009

Uniform Title: Vozvrashchenie Neytana Bekkera

Keywords: DVD-Video

Abstract: This rare, newly restored feature was originally advertised as "the first Yiddish talkie from Soviet Russia." The plot centers on Nathan Becker, a Jewish bricklayer who returns to Russia after 28 years in America. After reuniting with his father (played with comic eccentricity by Solomon Mikhoels) Nathan leaves the shtetl to work in the new industrial center of Magnitogorsk. There, he and his African-American friend Jim soon find that the work habits they acquired in America that helped them to "build New York together" conflict with the Soviet system. While the film's resolution emphasizes the triumph of socialist productivity, the screenplay by Yiddish author Peretz Markish reflects the warmth and humor of the Jewish spirit. "The Return of Nathan Becker" is the only Russian Yiddish sound feature film produced in the Soviet Union and was made for domestic consumption as well as for export to the United States. The film uses the character of Nathan Becker to dramatize of the failiure of American capitalism and assimilation, while glorifying the success and productivity of the new Soviet system. The film also depicts the shtetl way of life was backward and grotesque and promotes a shift away from this life and traditional Jewish values. It is a product of the Communist regime's determined efforts to reduce the rich Jewish cultural heritage to "Communist in content and Yiddish in form only". [jewishfilm.org]

Note: jidd. & russ. mit engl. UT

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Jewish Luck : Based on a Play by Sholem Aleichem (2007)

Granovskij, Aleksandr [Regisseur] ; Khvatov, Vasili [Kameramann] ; Strukov, Nicolai [Kameramann] ; [et al.]

Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 1 DVD-Video (96 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Year of publication: 2007

Uniform Title: Yevreiskoye schastye

Keywords: DVD-Video

Abstract: Bislang haben sich noch alle Träume des Menachem Mendel vom Reichwerden zerschlagen, bis er eines Tages eine Liste mit den Namen reicher Bräute findet, die ein Heiratsschwindler verloren hat. Fortan betätigt er sich als Heiratsvermittler, träumt sogar von einem gigantischen Eheinstitut zur Behebung des Frauenmangels in den USA und scheitert jämmerlich. Vom Moskauer jüdischen Kammertheater an Originalschauplätzen fotografiert, vermittelt der von frechem Witz und elegischem Humor getragene Film ein genaues Bild des Ostjudentums im zaristischen Rußland. - Ab 14. [Film-Dienst]

Abstract: "Jewish Luck" was among the first Soviet Yiddish films to be released in the US during the 1920s. Based on Sholem Aleichem's series of stories featuring the character Menakhem Mendl (played by the famous actor Solomon Mikhoels) the film revolves around the daydreaming entrepreneur Menakhem Mendl who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression by Tsarist Russia, Menakhem Mendl continues to pursue his dreams and his continued persistence transforms him from schlemiel to hero as the film uncovers the tragic underpinnings of Sholem Aleichem's comic tales. [jewishfilm.org]

Note: Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln

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East and West (2006)

Abramson, Ivan [Regisseur] ; Goldin, Sidney M. [Regisseur] ; Sapoznik, Henry [Komponist] ; [et al.]

Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: Yiddish

Pages: 1 DVD-Video (85 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Year of publication: 2006

Uniform Title: Ost und West

Keywords: DVD-Video

Abstract: This delightful comedy opens as Morris Brown, a New Yorker better acquainted with his checkbook than his prayerbook, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (the incomparable Molly Picon) for a family wedding. The bride, daughter of his traditionally observant brother, and Mollie, whose exuberant antics fill the film, could not be more different. But Mollie unexpectedly meets her match, an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsakes tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart. "East and West" features classic scenes of Molly Picon lifting weights and boxing, teaching young villagers to shimmy and stealing away from services to gorge herself before sundown on Yom Kippur. Underlying these hijinks is veteran filmmaker Goldin's affectionate appreciation of differences, for good-natured comedy shapes his portrayal of worldly Jews encountering traditional shtetl life. [jewishfilm.org]

Note: Stummfilm mit jidd. & engl. Zwischentiteln

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