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Hester Street
Title
Hester Street [videorecording] / Midwest Films presents ; screenplay by Joan Micklin Silver ; produced by Raphael D. Silver ; directed by Joan Micklin Silver.
ISBN
0780029399
Edition
[Special ed.]
Published
[Chatsworth, CA] : Home Vision Entertainment, c2004.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Notes
Based on Yekl by Abraham Cahan.
Videodisc release of the 1975 motion picture.
Special features: new digital transfer; chapter selection; audio commentary by Joan Micklin Silver and Raphael Silver; interviews with Joan Micklin Silver and Raphael Silver, Carol Kane and Doris Roberts; liner notes by Victoria Brownworth and Judith Redding.
Director of photography, Kenneth Van Sickle ; editor, Katherine Wenning ; music, William Bolcom.
In English and Yiddish with English subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Summary
A young Jewish woman comes to America in the 1890s and discovers that her husband has given up the ways of the old country, gotten a new girlfriend, and started a new life.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English; Yiddish
Added to Catalog
April 06, 2006
Credits
Director of photography, Kenneth Van Sickle ; editor, Katherine Wenning ; music, William Bolcom.
Cast
Mel Howard, Carol Kane, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Stephen Keats, Doris Roberts.
System details note
DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
HES 020 Home Vision Entertainment
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