Hester Street - 1975 Jewish Historical Drama - Carol Kane, Doris

Hester Street - 1975 Jewish Historical Drama - Carol Kane, Doris Roberts Video Codec..........: XviD ISO MPEG-4 Video Bitrate........: 865kbps Duration.............: 1:29:10 Resolution...........: 624*350 Framerate............: 29.970 Audio Codec..........: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3 Audio Bitrate........: 224 kbps CBR Audio Channels.......: 2 Subtitles............: English, Most of the dialogue is in Yiddish EXTRAS...............: Interviews, Excerpt from: Heritage - Civilization and the Jews http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073107/ http://bayimg.com/oamBJaAcf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hester_Street_%28film%29 **NOTE** - For those who are either Jewish or interested in Jewish things, I advise you skip this AVI version and upload the DVD-R, which includes the Director's Commentary. The Commentary includes a great deal of specific ethnic and religious additional information, and should not be missed. A side note; Fans of EVERYONE LOVES RAYMOND will be enchanted by the dramatic performance of Doris Roberts here, who plays Ray's mother in the TV series. Hester Street is a 1975 film based on Abraham Cahan's 1896 novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto and was adapted and directed by Joan Micklin Silver. The film stars Carol Kane, Steven Keats and Paul Freedman. Plot Hester Street tells the story of Jewish immigrants who come to the Lower East side of New York City in 1896 from Europe and who live on Hester Street in Manhattan. When Yekl first comes to the U.S., he quickly assimilates into American culture and becomes Jake. He also begins to have an affair with Mamie, a dancer. His wife, Gitl, who arrives later with their son, Yossele, cannot assimilate and tension arises in the marriage. Eventually, Jake and Gitle divorce, however in turn, Gitle takes all of Mamie's money and marries Bernstein, a faithful traditionalist. The film is noteworthy for its detailed reconstruction of Jewish immigrant life in New York at the turn of the century -- much of the dialogue is delivered in Yiddish with English subtitles -- and was part of the wave of films released in the late 1960s and through the 1970s which began explicitly to deal with the complexities of American Jewish identity. In addition, Carol Kane's lead character posed a still-provocative synthesis as she discovers her own self-assertion on behalf of her right to maintain a traditional identity in an aggressively modern setting. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress - Carol Kane. Cast Carol Kane ... Gitl Steven Keats ... Jake Mel Howard ... Bernstein Anna Berger ... Poultry Woman Ed Crowley ... Inspector (as Edward Crowley) Paul Freedman ... Joey Sol Frieder ... Scribe Lauren Frost ... Fanny Martin Garner ... Boss Dorrie Kavanaugh ... Mamie Zane Lasky ... Greenhorn (as Zane Laski) Mordecai Lawner ... Waiter Leib Lensky ... Peddler Robert Lesser ... Lawyer Eda Reiss Merin ... Rabbi's Wife Joanna Merlin ... Jake's Landlady Doris Roberts ... Mrs. Kavarsky Bert Salzman ... Zalman Zvee Scooler ... Rabbi Lin Shaye ... Whore Claudia Silver ... Feigie Philip Sterling ... Mr. Lipman Stephen Strimpell ... Joe Peltner Joel Wolfe ... Kaminsky http://www.nychinatown.org/storefronts/hester.html - Hester Street today (Chinatown!)

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tumbarrancho (2011-02-06)

Thank You, this one seems to be a fine movie