
Director Green returned to his native Poland from America to produce this film, the most commercially successful musical in the history of the Yiddish cinema, starring Molly Picon, consummate comedienne of Yiddish theater, vaudeville, and film. This is the classic folk comedy about a man and his daughter who, penniless, decide to become traveling musicians. The daughter disguises herself as a boy to relieve her father's anxiety about unforeseeable problems that could befall a... (Full plot summary below)
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Director Green returned to his native Poland from America to produce this film, the most commercially successful musical in the history of the Yiddish cinema, starring Molly Picon, consummate comedienne of Yiddish theater, vaudeville, and film. This is the classic folk comedy about a man and his daughter who, penniless, decide to become traveling musicians. The daughter disguises herself as a boy to relieve her father's anxiety about unforeseeable problems that could befall a young woman "out in the world." They then join together with "another" father-son duo for music, comedy and romance. Green's original screenplay was enhanced by the folksy lyrics of Yiddish poet Itzik Manger and the memorable musical score of Abraham Ellstein, as well as the talents of Leon Leibold, the romantic lead who later starred in The Dybbuk and Tevye, and Max Bozyk, a character actor par excellence. Breaking away from the studio-bound cinematography of the early Yiddish talkies, the film was shot on location in the picturesque town of Kazimierz and nearby Warsaw. With shtetl inhabitants as extras, the film captures the vitality and invincible spirit of traditional small town Jewish life.
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| User ReviewMargaret SMolly Picon is one of my favorite actresses. Filmed prior to WWII during a period when Yiddish theatre was at its height, this is an important film whose roots reach to later works such as "Yentl" and "Fiddler on the Roof." |
| User ReviewPrivate UEin bisschen yidischkeit mit Musik! Schoenen Blick in einen vergangenen (leider) Zeitpunkt. |
| User ReviewGuy HShows authentic Jewish life in Poland in the 1930s and is an example of what was popular then. Its a shame that most of the people in this movie were probably murdered within the next 10 years in the Holocaust. |