Produktion/Production Company Eron Pictures Inc. Produzenten/Producers Arthur Block, Samuel Segal Regie/Directors Ilya Motyleff (ungennant/ uncredited: Sidney M. Goldin) Buch/Script Louis Freiman, Mark Schweid Kamera/DoP Frank Zucker Ton/Sound Clarence R. Wall Schnitt/Editor Leonard Weiss Musik/Music Aleksandr Olshanetsky DarstellerInnen/Cast Moishe Oysher (Saul „Shloimele“ Reichman), Florence Weiss (Helen), Judith Abarbanel (Rivke), Michael Rosenberg (Yossel Lutchik), Juda Bleich (Kantor Zanvel Reichman/Cantor Zanvel Reichman), Bertha Guttenberg (Malke Reichman), Isidore Cashier (W. H. Rosovitch)

Spielfilm, sw., Beta SP, 90 Minuten, jidd. OF, engl. UT
Feature Film, b&w, Beta SP, 90 min., Yiddish OV, English subtitles

In seinem Filmdebüt verkörpert der Sänger und Kantor Moishe Oysher den
jungen Juden Saul, der aus einem polnischen Schtetl in die New Yorker
Lower East Side auswandert. Bald zieht er in die alte Heimat zurück, um wieder
mit seinen Eltern und seiner Jugendliebe zusammen zu sein. Regisseur
von Dem Chasens Sundel war zunächst Sidney M. Goldin, der davor schon
zahlreiche jiddische Produktionen drehte. Als er während der Dreharbeiten
einen tödlichen Herzanfall erlitt, wurde der Film, den der Kritiker Jim Hoberman
einen „anti-Jazz Singer“ nennt, von Ilya Motyleff fertiggestellt.


This Yiddish musical drama marks the screen debut of singer and cantor Moishe
Oysher. Shot in Pennsylvania, the film features Oysher in the title role of
a young Jew who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower
East Side. Ultimately, Oysher's character returns home to the Old Country and
reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart. After film director
Sidney M. Goldin suffered a fatal heart attack during the production, he was
replaced by Stanislavsky-protege Ilya Motlyeff, who is credited as the film’s
director. "A deft combination of comedy, romance and outstanding music,
this new Jewish picture will appeal tremendously to the Jewish fans. A fine
cast, well done story and deft direction combined with an unusually beautiful
musical score, make this one of the most outstanding Jewish pictures produced
in this country" (Film Daily, December 1937).

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