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The Jester (1937)
Directed by Jan Nowina-Przybylski, Joseph Green
Comedy, Drama · 1h 28m
Getsel, a wandering Purim player, comes to a Galica village and gets a job with Reb Nuchem, the shoemaker. He falls in love with Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, but knows she is in love with a wandering circus player. However, Getzel is content in his work and dreams. Esther's father inherits a fortune and attempts to marry her to a man of his choice, but she flees with Getzel to Warsaw, where he meets and marries the circus player. Getzel returns to the village and is blamed for Esther's disappearance until she shows up and explains what happened. Getzel shoulders his pack and wanders on to another village.
Cast
Zygmunt Turkow
Max Bozyk
Crew
- Director
- Jan Nowina-Przybylski, Joseph Green
- Screenplay
- Joseph Victor
- Director of Photography
- Seweryn Steinwurzel
- Original Music Composer
- Nikolaus Brodszky
- Producer
- Joseph Green
Details
- Original title
- Der Purimshpiler
- Release date
- 1937-01-02
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- YI
- Spoken languages
- Yiddish
- Countries
- Poland, United States of America
- Production
- Green-Film