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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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Notes
ReCAP - Remote Storage: Video Collection
VCASS 1162
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Subject(s)
Jews
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Soviet Union
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Drama
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Feature films
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Related name
Cashier, Isidore
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Beverley, Helen
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Opatoshu, David, 1918-1996
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Carmel Productions
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Ultra Film Distributors
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National Center for Jewish Film
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Ergo Media Inc
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Ulmer, Edgar G. (Edgar George), 1904-1972
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Ulmer, Shirley
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Feature films
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Related work(s)
Mendele Mokher Sefarim, 1835-1917.
Fishḳe der ḳrumer.
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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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