Yentl
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German title | Yentl |
Original title | Yentl |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1983 |
length | 133 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 6 |
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Director | Barbra Streisand |
script |
Jack Rosenthal , Barbra Streisand |
production | Barbra Streisand, Rusty Lemorande |
music | Michel Legrand |
camera | David Watkin |
cut | Terry Rawlings |
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Yentl is an American film from 1983 . It is based on the short story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashevis Singer . Barbra Streisand was a producer, director and also took on the lead role in this film. Jack Rosenthal was involved in the script, which Streisand also worked on. The film won an Oscar for Best Score . The music was written by Michel Legrand , the lyrics are by Alan and Marilyn Bergman , who had worked with Barbra Streisand for years.
This film features many of Streisand's songs, as a soloist, including "The Way He Makes Me Feel" and "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"
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The film is about the Jewish girl Yentl from Eastern Europe. Her mother died and her father secretly taught her the teachings of the Talmud - which most Hasidim believe is forbidden. After the death of her father, she disguised herself as a man and called herself Anshel from then on, in order to study at a yeshiva , a religious school. She falls in love with a fellow student named Avigdor.
Avigdor plans to marry a girl named Hadass, but when it is revealed that his brother has committed suicide, Hadass's parents reject him as a son-in-law. Avigdor urges Anshel to marry Hadass so that at least no one else would marry her. Only after the wedding does Yentl Avigdor reveal that she is a woman and loves him. She leaves Poland and emigrates to the USA. Hadass and Avigdor get married.
Reviews
"With a humane worldview and a high aesthetic appeal, the intimate musical and the melancholy comedy reconstruct the lost world of Eastern Jewry at the turn of the century."
Awards
- Golden Globe Award : Barbra Streisand received a Golden Globe for best director and as producer for best film in the musical category.
- Academy Award : The film won the Academy Award for Best Music and other nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Amy Irving), Best Set and Best Song.
- Golden Raspberry 1984: Nomination for worst actor for Barbra Streisand's (male) role.
Web links
- Yentl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Prism Online
Book template
- Isaac Bashevis Singer : Jentl , Erzählungen (Original title: Short Friday , translated by Wolfgang von Einsied). dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-423-25203-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yentl. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 16, 2016 .