Treasures of Yiddish Cinema II - 4-DVD Box Set ( Motel the Operator / Overture to Glory / Americaner Shadchen / Her Second Mother ) ( Motel the Operator / Overture to Glory / American Matchmaker / Her Second Mother )

Treasures of Yiddish Cinema II - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Motel the Operator / Overture to Glory / Americaner Shadchen / Her Second Mother
Alternate Title: Motel the Operator / Overture to Glory / American Matchmaker / Her Second Mother
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
326 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1940 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Joseph Seiden
Max Nosseck
Edgar G. Ulmer

Written By:
Chaim Tauber
Mark Arnshtein
Ossip Dymow
Jacob Gladstone
Max Nosseck

Gustav H. Heimo
Shirley Ulmer
B. Ressler
Izidor Frankel

Actors:
Chaim Tauber ..... Motel Friedman
Seymour Rechzeit ..... Jacob 'Jack' Rosenwald
Yetta Zwerling ..... Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin
Jacob Zanger ..... Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin
Maurice Krohner ..... Benjamin Rosenwald
Izidor Frankel ..... The Boss
Berthe Hart ..... Rebecca Rosenwald
Gertrude Krause ..... Ruth Frumkin
Malvina Rappel ..... Esta Friedman
Herman Rosen ..... The Cantor
Joseph Schoengold
Louis 'Leibele' Waldman
Moyshe Oysher ..... Yoel Duvid Strashunsky
Florence Weiss ..... Chana Strashunsky, his wife
Maurice Krohner ..... Aaron, his father-in-law
John Mylong ..... Stanislaw Maniusko
Helen Beverley ..... Wanda Mirova
Baby Winkler ..... Peretz Strashunsky
Benjamin Fishbein ..... Nute, the stadtl shamez [sexton]
Lazar Freed ..... The Stadtl Rabbi
Erika Zaranoya ..... Jadwiga Godliewska, blond diva
Ivan Busatt ..... Director of the Opera
Leonard Elliott ..... Tilchinski, orchestra conductor
Max Willenz ..... The Warsaw Shamez [sexton]
Hermann Blaß ..... The Costume Supervisor
Omus Hirschbein ..... Peretz's Pal
Werner Bass ..... The Pianist
Luba Wesoly ..... Countess Mirova
Manfried Lewandowski ..... A Cantor
Ossip Dymow ..... A Count
Alfred Durra ..... Undetermined
Leo Fuchs ..... Nat Silver / Uncle Shya
Judith Abarbanel ..... Judith Aarons
Judel Dubinsky ..... Maurice
Anna Guskin ..... Elvie Silver
Celia Brodkin ..... Nat's Mother
Rosetta Bialis ..... Mrs. Aarons
Abraham Lax ..... Simon P. Schwalbenrock
Esther Adler ..... Undetermined Role
M. Henig ..... Undetermined Role
H. Appel ..... Undetermined Role
Sarah Krohner ..... Undetermined Role
I. Arco ..... Undetermined Role
M. Lerner ..... Undetermined Role
M. Boodkin ..... Undetermined Role
V. Luboff ..... Undetermined Role
Charles Cohen ..... Undetermined Role
William Mercur ..... Undetermined Role
B. Gailing ..... Undetermined Role
Jacob Mestel ..... Undetermined Role
S. Gold ..... Undetermined Role
M. Schwartz ..... Undetermined Role
A. Gross ..... Undetermined Role
Esta Salzman ..... Surele Polakoff
Max Badin ..... Moishe Polakoff
Rose Greenfield ..... Esther Polakoff
Margaret Schoenfeld ..... Bella Polakoff
Jacob Zanger ..... Shimen Kupperman
Yetta Zwerling ..... Bruchi
Muni Serebroff ..... Juno
Seymour Rechzeit ..... Nathan Field
Dave Lubritsky ..... Ben Grossman
Herman Rosen ..... Molinofsky
Izidor Frankel ..... Doctor

Synopsis:

Motel the Operator: Motl, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide. Overture to Glory: The cantor of the Vilna Synagogue, played by the great real-life cantor Moishe Oysher, leaves behind his prayers to perform in the Warsaw Opera. He struggles to balance the appeal of his newfound fame and notoriety with feelings of guilt and responsibility toward his family and community. Featuring perhaps the most convincing scenes of synagogue life in any fiction film, Overture to Glory begins during the morning service on Rosh Hashanah and ends at Kol Nidre, making the story a kind of redemptive journey during the days of awe. American Matchmaker: Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have Shirley back, and Nat graciously gives in. According to Nat's mother, his Uncle Shya was unlucky at love but lucky as a matchmaker, and Nat is just like Shya. Nat tells his family he's going to Italy. But he remains in New York and sets himself up with a new name and new business, Nat Gold, Advisor in Human Relations... Her Second Mother: A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents' kindness by shielding their biological child, who has gotten involved with an embezzler, from the police.

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