Yiddle with his fiddle / Green Films presents ; directed by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski ; screen play, Joseph Green ; produced by Green-Film (Warsaw, Poland).

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DVD-0980

Overview

Summary: Seeking to help her aging father and finding few options for young women in the shtetl, Molly/Yiddle disguises herself as a boy to join a band of klezmorim. Filmed in Poland in 1936.
Variant Title: Idl mitn fidl
Series: Joseph Green Yiddish film classic
Joseph Green Yiddish film classic.
Format: Video
Published: Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis University, [2006]
Locale: Poland
Other Authors/Editors: Green, Joseph, 1900-1996, director, screenwriter.
Nowina-Przybylski, Jan, director.
Picon, Molly, actor.
Bozyk, Max, 1899-1970, actor.
Fostel, Simche, actor.
Liebgold, Leon, actor.
Tom, Konrad, 1887-1957.
Green-Film (Firm)
National Center for Jewish Film.
Notes: From the original story by Konrad Tom.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1936.

Music, Abraham Ellstein ; lyrics, I. Manger ; photography, Jack Janilowicz.

Molly Picon, M. Bozyk, S. Landau, S. Fostel, L. Liebgold, M. Brin, D. Fakiel, A. Kurc.

DVD, NTSC.

Yiddish with English subtitles.

Language: Yiddish
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Physical Description: 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects: Jewish musicians--Poland--Drama. Jews--Poland--Drama. Poland--Social life and customs--Drama. Musical films. Comedy films. Feature films. Fiction films. Video recordings. Drama.

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