The jester [videorecording] = Der Purimspieler / scenario, Joseph Victor ; direction Joseph Green and Jan Nowina Przybylski ; produced by Green-Film.

Other Title:

Purimspieler [videorecording]
Title on container label: Purim shpiler [videorecording]

Publication:

[S.l. : s.n., 200-?].

Format/Description:

Archive
1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.

Subjects:

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Love -- Drama.

Form/Genre:

Feature films.
Musical films.
Musicals.
Motion pictures, Yiddish.

Language:

Dialogue in Yiddish with English subtitles; title and credits in English.

System Details:

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.

Contributor:

Green, Joseph. , Director, Producer
Nowina-Przybylski, Jan. , Director
Victor, Joseph. , Screenwriter
Kressyn, Miriam. , Actor
Turkow, Zygmunt, 1896-1970. , Actor
Green Film (Firm) , Producer
Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive.

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