Al Chejt
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Al Chejt על חטא |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Yiddish |
| Publishing year | 1936 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Aleksander Marten |
| script | Jecheskiel Mosze Neuman |
| production | Saul Goskind |
| music | Henech Kon |
| camera | Stanislaw Lipinski |
| occupation | |
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Al Chejt (Yiddish על חטא , Polish Za grzechy , English I have sinned , German after sin ) is a melodrama and the first sound film produced by the Polish director Aleksander Marten (1898–1942). It was shot in the Yiddish language in 1936 .
action
Esther, the daughter of a rabbi, falls in love with the Jewish-Austrian officer Leon Anton and is expecting a child from him. Before the two can marry, he is called up to the front and falls. As an illegitimate pregnant woman, she is a sinner for her father. He violates them. Destitute, she has to give her newborn baby up for adoption. She emigrates to the United States in the hope of a new life . There she succeeded in a career as a singer. When faced with an orphanage fate after sixteen years there , she decides to return home to find her daughter Rachel. At the orphanage, she only learns that the child has been adopted by a Cohen family. Some strange situations arise in the search for her. She also met a talented young violinist who turned out to be Rachel's friend. At the end of the film, Esther reconciles with her father.
background
The editor of the Yiddish film magazine Film Velt Saul Goskind , which also owned a film laboratory in Warsaw , produced the film. The necessary material could be obtained cheaply from the Jewish management of the AGFA branch in Warsaw. The director Marten was a student of Max Reinhardt , and numerous Jewish actors who had fled Germany were involved in the film. The production company Kinor was specially founded by Goskind.
premiere
The operators of the big cinemas in Warsaw feared losing their audience because of the anti-Jewish atmosphere and did not want to show the film. That is why the producer Goskind himself rented the Farma cinema with 500 seats in the Nalewski district, Przejazd Street 9. He too feared violent excesses by the Polish nationalists and asked his driver to describe the situation in front of the cinema by telephone at the premiere on April 14, 1936. He described a large crowd and a mounted police operation because of the great demand for tickets for the film. The film became a huge hit and ran for four months and recouped its cost. The film opened in New York City on January 1, 1938 under the title I Have Sinned . Again he was a success.
Web links
- Al Chejt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Yiddish Cinema: The Yiddish Cinema in Poland , accessed May 28, 2013
- ↑ James Lewis Hoberman: Bridge of light: Yiddish film between two worlds , p. 225 available as google-book