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Fishke der krumer = The Light ahead/Fishke the lame / Cinema Repertory ; producer, director, Edgar G. Ulmer ; associate producer, Peter E. Kassler ; screenplay, Sherle and Edgar G. Ulmer.
LIBRA VHS PJ5129.A2 F5 1991
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Mendele Mokher Sefarim, 1835-1917. Fishke der krumer, author.
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Soviet Union--Drama.
- Jews.
- Soviet Union.
- Motion pictures, Yiddish.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Light ahead
- Fishka der krimmer.
- Light ahead.
- Fishke the lame.
- Place of Publication:
- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, 1991.
- Language Note:
- Yiddish dialogue, English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- The innocent, impoverished lovers, lame Fishke and blind Hodel, are beset by the superstition, prejudice and greed present in a late nineteenth century shtetl in tsarist Russia. The benevolent and enlightened bookseller Mendele helps and encourages them in their dream of escaping to a freer life in Odessa.
- Participant:
- Isidore Cashier, Helen Beverley, David Opatoshu.
- Credits:
- Camera, J. Burgi Contner, Edward Hyland ; sound, N. Dean Cole.
- Notes:
- Added title frames: Fishka der krimmer.
- Based on stories by S.Y. Abramovitch (Mendele Mokher Seforim)"--Container.
- Originally produced as a motion picture by Carmel Productions and released by Ultra Film Distributors in 1939.
- "The 1982 restored [film] production, the National Center for Jewish Film in association with American Jewish Historical Society and Brandeis University."
- "The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish Film Library of the National Center for Jewish Film"--Container.
- OCLC:
- 25264555
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