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The Singing blacksmith

Title
The Singing blacksmith [videorecording] / Collective Film Producers ; produced by Roman Rebush.
Publication
Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, 1937.

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Additional Authors
  • Ulmer, Edgar G. (Edgar George), 1904-1972.
  • Oysher, Moishe.
Description
1 videocassette (96 min.) : sd., b&w.; 1/2 in.
Summary
This naturalistic comedy/drama, set in Eastern Europe but shot in New Jersey, is the story of Yankl, a young man who wishes to attend the gymnasium but is instead apprenticed to the hard-drinking blacksmith Bendl. Eventually inheriting the smithy, Yankl sees too many women and consumes too much liquor until he meets and marries the orphan Tamara. Although he loves his sickly wife, he cannot help but succumb to the more sensuous charms of his neighbor's wife Rivke. At the conclusion, Yankl is transformed into a "mentsh," a conscientious worker, husband and father. Resembling Soviet cinema of the period, the film features the first explicitly working-class hero in American-Yiddish cinema.
Alternative Title
Yankl der Shmid.
Genre/Form
  • Feature films.
  • Comedy films.
Note
  • In Yiddish with English subtitles.
  • Yiddish title: Yankl der Shmid.
  • Based on a play by David Pinski.
Credits (note)
  • Director, Edgar G. Ulmer; screenplay, Ossip Dymow, Ben-Zvi Baratoff, David Pinski; music, Jacob Weinberg.
Performer (note)
  • Moishe Oysher, Miriam Riselle, Ben-Zvi Baratoff, Florence Weiss, Herschel Bernardi.
Title
The Singing blacksmith [videorecording] / Collective Film Producers ; produced by Roman Rebush.
Imprint
Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, 1937.
Credits
Director, Edgar G. Ulmer; screenplay, Ossip Dymow, Ben-Zvi Baratoff, David Pinski; music, Jacob Weinberg.
Cast
Moishe Oysher, Miriam Riselle, Ben-Zvi Baratoff, Florence Weiss, Herschel Bernardi.
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Added Author
Ulmer, Edgar G. (Edgar George), 1904-1972.
Oysher, Moishe.
Added Title
Yankl der Shmid.
Branch Call Number
VTH 2634 S
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