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Green Fields (1937)
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Overview
Ulmer’s soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of “true Jews,” he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in as a tutor for their children.
Length 106 minutes
Actors
Michael Gorrin | Helen Beverly | Isidore Cashier | Anna Appel | Max Vodnoy | Lea Noemi