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Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish / Vilna City Films presents ; written, produced, and directed by Eve Annenberg ; produced by Lazer Weis, Mendy Zafir, Ruth O'Brien.
LIBRA DVD 022 041
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Romeo and Juliet, author.
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Romeo (Fictitious character)--Drama.
- Romeo.
- Romeo (Fictitious character).
- Juliet (Fictitious character)--Drama.
- Juliet.
- Juliet (Fictitious character).
- Vendetta--Drama.
- Vendetta.
- Youth--Drama.
- Youth.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oakland, Calif.] : Nancy Fishman Film Releasing, [2011]
- Language Note:
- In English and Yiddish with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The play Romeo and Juliet has been translated around the world. Now this gritty, funny new feature film retells William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in Yiddish. A middle-aged ER nurse, Ava, in graduate school-and bitterly lapsed observant Jew-undertakes a Yiddish translation of Shakespeare's great classic, Romeo and Juliet. Meanwhile, her houseguest, also a Hasidic dropout, is "leaking" Kabbalistic magic, and enchants her studio apartment. In what might be the first Yiddish "mumblecore" film, Annenberg creates a parallel universe (aka Williamsburg, Brooklyn), where Romeo and Juliet stem from divergent streams of ultra-orthodox Judaism and speak their lines in street-smart Yiddish.
- Participant:
- Melissa "Malky" Weisz, Lazer Weiss, Eve Annenberg, Mendy Zafir, Joel "Bubbles" Weiss, Josef Friedman, Yelena Shmulenson.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, In Young Choi, editor, Jack Haigis, composer, Joel "Yisroal ben Binyamin" Diamond.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2010.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 813218700
- Publisher Number:
- 823857161621
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