SKU 3385

MIRELE EFROS (1939) * with hard-encoded English subtitles *

Josef Berne, Jacob Gordin, Ossip Dymow ,Berta Gersten, Ruth Elbaum, Albert Lipton

Mirele Efros, also known as "The Yiddish Queen Lear", is a sophisticated version of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin's work about honesty, decency and devotion towards family and community.  Mirele, a wealthy and pious widow, whose devotion to her children even goes as far as hand-picking her eldest son's wife, makes a tragic mistake in evaluating her future daughter-in-law as giving and pious.  Conflict ensnares the two in short order and a lesson about the value of piety is conveyed in the cautionary tale.

DVD-R is in Yiddish with hard-encoded English subtitles.  Approx. 76 mins. + a 3 min. contemporary newsreel.

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