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A Vilna legend : the rabbi's power / directed by George Roland.
Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives DVD V0149
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- Format:
- Archive
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Hirschbein, Peretz, 1880-1948, author.
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Elijah (Biblical prophet).
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)--Drama.
- Vilnius (Lithuania).
- Elijah (Biblical prophet)--Drama.
- Elijah.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Motion pictures, Israeli.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Rabbi's power
- Yiddish title from Internet Movie Database: Tkies khaf
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 2000 and 2009]
- Language Note:
- In Yiddish with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A tale of frustrated love and destiny set in the Jewish community of Vilna before the second world war. A yeshiva student and a poor girl who are deeply in love are assisted by the prophet Elijah after it seems that fate and dishonest people have conspired to keep them apart.
- Participant:
- Joseph Buloff, Ester Rokhl-Kominska, Ida Kominska, Zygmunt Turkow, Adam Domb, Moshe Litman, Lev Molilow, Simcha Balanoff, Jacob Meistel, Leib Kadison, Benjamin Fishbein and Ben Basenko.
- Credits:
- Produced by Leo Forbert, George Roland ; 1924 film directed by Zygmund Turkow ; 1924 screenplay by Henrik Bojm from a play by Peretz Hirshbein ; 1933 screenplay by Jacob Mestel ; photographed by Chas. Hanley.
- Notes:
- Title from credits.
- Originally shot as a silent film in 1924, mostly on location in Vilna. In 1933 sound was added by a group of New York Yiddish actors, who also added the plot device of the narrator, who appears both onscreen in new scenes and in voiceover, to explain the silent story without intertitles.
- Local Notes:
- Freedman Archive Collection. Disc V0149.
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