- Summary
- In a small Volhynian village, the local Count's daughter falls in love with Leybke, a handsome Jewish guardsman, but all her attempts to win him fail as he is in love with and betrothed to Kreyndl. The Countess desperately tries to seduce Leybke, and avenges her failure by falsely accusing him of attacking her. Yizkor dramatizes its theme of fidelity to one's self, one's community and one's religion through a plot that revolves around hostage-taking, heroism and resistance.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film, [2006]
©2006
- Other Authors/Editors
- Silberberg, Wolf.
Schwartz, Maurice, 1890-1960.
Beregi, Oszkár, 1876-1965.
Gersten, Berta.
Goldin, Sidney M., 1880-1937.
Jewish Art Film Society.
National Center for Jewish Film.
- Notes
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1924.
Screenplay, Harry Sekler ; producers, Sydney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson.
Wolf Silberberg, Maurice Schwartz, Oskar Beregi, Berta Gersten.
DVD.
Silent film with English intertitles.
