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The jester = Der Purimspieler / scenario, Joseph Victor ; direction Joseph Green and Jan Nowina Przybylski ; produced by Green-Film.
Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives VHS PN1995.9.L6 J47 2000z
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- Format:
- Archive
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Love--Drama.
- Love.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Musical films.
- Motion pictures, Yiddish.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Purimspieler
- Title on container label: Purim shpiler
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 2000 and 2009?]
- Language Note:
- Dialogue in Yiddish with English subtitles; title and credits in English.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- A drifter finds brief happiness when he falls in love with a shoemaker's daughter in a small town in Galicia. A likable fantasy about a man's quest for the unobtainable.
- Participant:
- Miriam Kressyn, Zygmund Turkow, Hymie Jacobson.
- Credits:
- Photography, Seweryn Steinwurcel ; music, Nicholas Brodsky ; dialogue & lyrics, Itzik Manger.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1937.
- Local Notes:
- Freedman Archive Collection. Tape V0108.
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