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The Last Love of Laura Adler (1990)
Directed by Avraham Heffner
Overview
Yiddish live theater, a formerly lively theatrical form, is barely sustained by a few aging aficionados and its loyal but aged audience. Laura Adler is a big star of one of these troupes. She is attractive, middle-aged and quite content to spend her days performing obscure theater in her backwater town. One day, however, she learns that she is being considered for a part in a major U.S. film, and, while she is absorbing that news, she has an affair with a young man. Later, when she learns that she has terminal cancer, she decides to spend her remaining days onstage with her theatrical friends and family.
Length 99 minutes
Actors
Shulamit Adar | Rita Zohar | Menashe Warshavsky | Alexander Yahalomi | Avraham Mor | Sally-Ann Friedland | Bella Luciano | Ya'ackov Shapira