Year: 1937
Runtime: 106 mins
Language: Yiddish
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Ulmer’s soulful, open‑air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play ushered the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. An ascetic young scholar leaves the city seeking “true Jews,” arrives in a rural village where Jewish peasants take him in as a tutor for their children, teaching him unexpected lessons about life and faith.
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