Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of "true Jews," he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in as a tutor for their children.
Is this for you? If you have zero patience for movies that move at a walking pace, skip this. But if you’ve ever felt like your head was too full of ideas and your actual life was empty, you’ll probably find something to love here. It’s warm, it’s a bit dusty, and it’s definitely not for the 'everything must explode' c...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Jacob Ben-Ami
Henry Edwards
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"Is this for you? If you have zero patience for movies that move at a walking pace, skip this. But if you’ve ever felt like your head was too full of ideas and your actual life was empty, you’ll probably find something to love here. It’s warm, it’s a bit dusty, and it’s definitely not for the 'everything must explode' crowd. There’s this moment early on where the scholar, Uriel, is just… wandering. He’s looking for something pure, something real. Most films would turn this into a grand epic jour..."
George Moskov, Peretz Hirschbein
United States
1920 · IMDb 6.3
Hal Roach
