Research Catalog

Title

Fishke der krumer = The Light ahead/Fishke the lame / Cinema Repertory.

Publication

Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, 1991.

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Additional Authors

• Cashier, Isidore, 1887-1948.
• Beverley, Helen.
• Opatoshu, David, 1918-1996.
• Mendele Mokher Sefarim, 1835-1917.
• Cinema Repertory.
• Carmel Productions.
• National Center for Jewish Film.

Description

1 videocassette (94 min.) : sound, black and white; 1/2 in.

Summary

The innocent, impoverished lovers, lame Fishke and blind Hodel, are beset by the superstition, prejudice and greed present in a late nineteenth century shtetl in tsarist Russia. The benevolent and enlightened bookseller Mendele helps and encourages them in their dream of escaping to a freer life in Odessa.

Alternative Title

• Fishka der krimmer.
• Light ahead.
• Fishke the lame.

Subject

• Jews > Soviet Union > Drama
• Feature films

Genre/Form

Motion pictures, Yiddish.

Note

• Yiddish dialogue, English subtitles.
• Added title frames: Fishka der krimmer.
• Based on stories by S.Y. Abramovitch (Mendele Mokher Seforim)"--Container.
• Originally produced as a motion picture by Carmel Productions and released by Ultra Film Distributors in 1939.
• "The 1982 restored [film] production, the National Center for Jewish Film in association with American Jewish Historical Society and Brandeis University."
• "The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish Film Library of the National Center for Jewish Film"--Container.

Credits (note)

• Producer, director, Edgar G. Ulmer ; associate producer, Peter E. Kassler ; screenplay, Sherle and Edgar G. Ulmer ; camera, J. Burgi Contner, Edward Hyland ; sound, N. Dean Cole.

Performer (note)

• Isidore Cashier, Helen Beverley, David Opatoshu.

System Details (note)

• VHS format.

OCLC

• ocm25264555
• SCSB-5132958

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries