The light ahead = Fishka der krimmer / produced by Edgar G. Ulmer ; screenplay, Sherle and Edgar G. Ulmer.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
Yiddish
Published/​Created
Waltham, MA : Ergo Media Inc., ©1993.
Description
1 videocassette (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.

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    Summary note
    The innocent, impoverished lovers, lame Fishke and blind Hodel, are beset by the superstition, prejudice and greed present in a late nineteenth century shtetl in tsarist Russia. The benevolent and enlightened bookseller Mendele helps and encourages them in their dream of escaping to a freer life in Odessa.
    Notes
    • Yiddish dialogue, English subtitles.
    • Adopted from the work of S.Y. Abramovitch (Mendele Mokher Seforim): Fishḳe der ḳrumer
    • Originally produced as a motion picture by Carmel Productions and released by Ultra Film Distributors in 1939.
    • The 1982 restored [film] production, the National Center for Jewish Film in association with American Jewish Historical Society and Brandeis University.
    • The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish Film Library of the National Center for Jewish Film.
    Creation/​Production credits
    Camera, J. Burgi Contner, Edward Hyland ; sound, N. Dean Cole.
    System details
    VHS format.
    Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
    Isidore Cashier, Helen Beverley, David Opatoshu.
    Other title(s)
    • Fishka der krimmer
    • Fishḳe der ḳrumer
    Title on container
    • Fishke the lame
    ISBN
    • 1560821019
    • 9781560821014
    Publisher no.
    738
    OCLC
    54745875
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