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JOSEPH GREEN CLASSICS ON DVD!
Over
65 years ago, Joseph Green (1900-1996) began making Yiddish movies in
Poland, collaborating with many of the outstanding artists of the Yiddish world,
both in America and Eastern Europe. The outbreak of war brought an end to that
era. These four films are a precious legacy.
Producer/director Green worked with Ergo president Eric Goldman to restore his work. Together they saved "Mamele" and "Der Purimshpiler." Green was satisfied that his other two films had been properly preserved!
NEW
THE DVDs have 'extras' like
audio commentary by Joseph Green and some of the actors from the films (Molly
Picon, Miriam Kressyn, Leon Liebgold); an
introduction by Yiddish film historian Dr. Eric Goldman; a photo gallery; filmography and more.
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DVD: BUY THE JOSEPH GREEN YIDDISH FILM COLLECTOR'S EDITION OF FOUR DVDs FOR $130.
Yidl
Mitn Fidl
(Yidl
with a Fiddle)
Molly Picon plays a young woman who poses as a man in order to join
a band of musicians traveling the Polish countryside. She falls
in love with one of her colleagues with delightfully humorous results.
Filled with music and charm, Molly, in her greatest role, amuses and entertains.
Also with Simche
Fostel, Max Bozyk and Leon Liebgold.
"Miss Picon puts so much infectious gayety...that
the result is genuine entertainment."-New York Times
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DVD:ISBN
1-56082-284-8
92 min., #710, B&W, 1936, DVD
Yiddish w/new Eng. subtitles, $39.95
Der
Purimshpiler (Director's Cut)
(The
Jester)
A romantic comedy about a drifter who wanders from "shtetl to shtetl."
He finds brief happiness when he falls in love with a shoemaker's daughter
in a small Galician town. A likable fantasy about a love triangle and man's
quest for the unobtainable. With Miriam Kressyn and Zygmund Turkow.
"Der Purimshpiler is the best Yiddish film this
reviewer has ever seen."-New York Daily News
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DVD:ISBN
1-56082-287-2
90 min., #715, B&W, 1937, DVD,
Yiddish w/Eng. subtitles, $39.95
Mamele
(Director's
Cut)
(Little
Mother)
Molly Picon is Khavtshi, the youngest daughter of a widower, who is
left with the responsibility of tending house for a helpless and indifferent
family of seven. As such, she becomes the "mamele," their "little
mother." Filled with that special brand of humor and song that made Molly
Picon the undisputed queen of Yiddish musicals. With Edmund Zayenda.
"Lots of fun-90 mins. of laughter."-New
York Times
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DVD:
ISBN 1-56082-285-6
95 min., #720, B&W, 1938, DVD,
Yiddish w/new Eng. subtitles, $39.95
A
Brivele der Mamen
(A
Letter to Mother)
This delightfully sentimental and moving story focuses on one Jewish
mother's efforts to keep her family together. A wonderful mix of intense
melodrama and stylized comedy. With Lucy & Misha Gehrman and Edmund
Zayenda.
"Can be enjoyed 'not only' by the Yiddish audience
who should find it delightful."
-New York Post
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DVD:
ISBN 1-56082-286-4
100 min., #725, B&W, 1938, DVD,
Yiddish w/new Eng. subtitles, $39.95
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