| Brief Description: | A restored Yiddish classic. A musical comedy portraying the relentless
efforts of two small-town Jews to escape their misery and achieve fame
and fortune. In the face of setbacks, community quarrels and even
insanity, they refuse to give in to despair. With violent
anti-Semitism intensifying in Poland and Nazism looming on the
horizon, their satirical monologues provided Jewish audiences with a
rare opportunity to escape through laughter. From the National Center
for Jewish Film. Yiddish with English subtitles. |
