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The Yiddish King Lear (1934)
Directed by Harry Thomashefsky
Drama · 1h 10m
Setting off from Vilna to spend his last days in the Holy Land, an arrogant old man spurns the youngest of his three daughters and leaves his fortune in the wrong hands.
Cast
M
Maurice Krohner
David Moshele, the Yiddish King Lear
F
Fannie Levenstein
Hanna Lear, Mosheles' wife
J
Jacob Bergreen
Joffe
M
Miriam Grossman
Toibelle, Mosheles' youngest daughter
E
Eddie Pascal
Shomoi
R
Rose Schwartzberg
Servant
M
Morris Weisman
Abraham Chariff
J
Jeannette Paskewich
Estelle, Mosheles' eldest daughter
M
Morris Tarlowsky
Moses Chorid
E
Esther Adler
Gitelle, Mosheles' second daughter
H
Harold Schutzman
A
Anne G. Sterling
Attractive Girl (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Harry Thomashefsky
- Writer
- Abraham Armband
- Director of Photography
- Joseph Freeman
- Original Music Composer
- Joseph Brody
- Producer
- Johnnie Walker, Jack Rieger
Details
- Release date
- 1934-10-01
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- YI
- Spoken languages
- Yiddish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Lear Pictures Inc.