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Purimshpiler The jester
Title
Purimshpiler [videorecording] = The jester / a film by Joseph Green.
Published
Teaneck, N.J. : Ergo Media Inc., 2002.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
"The Joseph Green Yiddish film collector's edition." -- Container.
Special features: Audio interviews with Joseph Green and Miriam Kressyn ; introduction by yiddish film historian Dr. Eric Goldman ; production credits, photo gallery ; filmography/biography ; interactive menus ; scene access.
Originally produced as a Polish/American motion picture in 1937.
Directors, Joseph Green ; producers, Edward Hantower, Joseph Green ; screenplay, Chaver-Paver, Joseph Green ; camera, Seweryn Steinwurcel ; music, Nicholas Brodszky.
In Yiddish with English subtitles.
Summary
A romantic comedy about a drifter, who wanders from shtetl to shtetl. He finds brief happiness when he falls in love with a shoemaker's daughter in a small Galician town in this likeable fantasy about a love triangle and man's quest for the unobtainable.
Variant and related titles
Jester
Purim-shpiler
פורים-שפילער
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Yiddish
Added to Catalog
December 05, 2007
Credits
Directors, Joseph Green ; producers, Edward Hantower, Joseph Green ; screenplay, Chaver-Paver, Joseph Green ; camera, Seweryn Steinwurcel ; music, Nicholas Brodszky.
Performers
Cast: Miriam Kressyn, Zygmund Turkow, Hymie Jacobson.
System details note
DVD.
Videorecording number
D715 Ergo Media
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