Grine fields
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Green Fields Grine fields |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | Yiddish |
| Publishing year | 1937 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Edgar G. Ulmer , Jacob Ben-Ami |
| script | Perez deer leg |
| production | Roman Rebush , Ludwig Landy |
| occupation | |
Grine felder (Yiddish גרינע פעלדער, English OT Green fields ) is a Yiddish-language feature film from the USA from 1937. It is based on the 1916 play of the same name by Perez Hirschbein .
action
The film tells of the yeshiva student Levy Jizchok, who goes on a journey in Belarus and finds accommodation with a Jewish family in a village.
production
After the great public success of Yidl mitn Fidl , Hollywood producer Roman Rebush decided to shoot a feature film for the Yiddish-speaking audience in the USA. He hired the director Edgar G. Ulmer, who had previously made a Ukrainian-language film. The actors came from the Yiddish Art Theater in New York .
Web links
- Green Fields in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Green fields (42nd Berlinale, Forum)