- Summary
- An ascetic young Hasidic scholar leaves his studies to search the Lithuanian countryside for common people and a meaningful existence close to the land.
- Other Title
- Green fields.
- Variant Title
- Grine felder
Peretz Hirshbein's Green fields
Peretz Hirshbein's Grine felder
- Series
- Edgar G. Ulmer
Edgar G. Ulmer.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Films, [2005?]
©1989
- Locale
- Lithuania
- Other Authors/Editors
- Ulmer, Edgar G. (Edgar George), 1904-1972.
Ben-Ami, Jacob.
Rebush, Roman.
Moskov, George.
Heifetz, Vladimir, 1893-1970.
Ombrinho, Michael.
Beverley, Helen.
Cashier, Isidore, 1887-1948.
Appel, Anna, 1888-1963.
Bernardi, Herschel.
Hirschbein, Peretz, 1880-1948.
National Center for Jewish Film.
Producers Service Studios Inc.
- Notes
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Based on Peretz Hirshbein's play Green fields.
Previously produced as a motion picture in 1937.
"The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish Film Library of the National Center for Jewish Film"
Extras: Program notes by J. Hoberman ; Peter Bogdanovitch interview with Ulmer, cast interview ; Ulmer biography.
Music, Vladimir Heifetz ; camera, William Miller, J. Burgi Contner; adaption and dialogue Peretz Hirshbein ; editing Jack Kemp ; photographed at Producers Service Studios Inc.
Michael Goldstein, Helen Beverly, Isidore Cashier, Anna Appel, Leah Noemi, Max Vodnoy, Saul Levine, Herschel Bernardi, Dena Drute.
DVD, NTSC.
Yiddish with new English subtitles.
