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A brivele der mamen / Green-Film presents ; released by Sphinx Films Corp. ; directed by Joseph Green.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 037 984
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America--Drama.
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America.
- Jews--Ukraine--Drama.
- Jews.
- Jews--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
- Jewish women--Drama.
- Jewish women.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Ukraine.
- Genre:
- Feature films -- Poland.
- Feature films -- United States.
- Foreign language films -- Yiddish.
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Yiddish films
- Yiddish films.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Polish.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Title on container: Letter to mother
- בריוועלע דער מאמען
- Place of Publication:
- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, ©2007.
- Language Note:
- Yiddish dialogue with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC, all regions; full screen (1.33:1) presentation.
- Summary:
- Set in the Polish Ukraine and New York City at the time of the First World War, the film traces the break-up of a family due to stress, the chaos of war and the difficulties of immigrant life. It focuses on one Jewish mother's efforts to keep her family together.
- Participant:
- Lucy Gehrman, Misha Gehrman, Max Bozyk, Edmund Zeyenda, Gertrude Bullman, Alexander Stein, Samuel Landau, Simche Fostel, Chana Levin, Itshok Grudberg, Irving Bruner.
- Credits:
- Photography, Seweryn Steinwurtcel ; music, Abraham Ellstein ; story by M. Osherowitz.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1938.
- ISBN:
- 1585873160
- 9781585873166
- OCLC:
- 213471183
- Publisher Number:
- 800821033733
- 8008210033733
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