Lamed wow
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| Original title | Lamed wow למד וו |
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| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Yiddish |
| Publishing year | 1925 |
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| Director | Henryk Szaro |
| script | Henryk Bojm |
| production | Leo Forbert |
| camera | Seweryn stone root |
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Lamed wow (Yiddish דער למד וואוו'ניק, Polish Jeden z 36 ) is a Jewish silent film from 1925 from Poland in Yiddish . It is based on the legend of the 36 righteous and is part of the technical revolution that began in Poland in the 1920s , during which many Polish films were produced in an unusually high quality for the time.
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The film depicts one of the 36 righteous and thematizes nationalism in the setting of a Jewish shtetl at the time of the January uprising in 1863. In contrast to comparable films with a patriotic undertone, Skarzo's work focuses on life during Russian rule, but retains moral awareness and that Striving for national unity, packaged in a historical setting and with the dramaturgical means of the unrealistic prospects of success.
Although the film was supposed to evoke the Polish-Jewish solidarity during a brief phase of political rapprochement between the Polish government and Jewish parliamentarians, the main character, the woodcutter Benedykt, clearly bears Christian traits in that he accepts the sins of his fellow men and his life for them sacrifices.
reception
The film was successfully exported and was particularly popular with audiences in the Jewish regions of Moldova and Bessarabia . In the Polish press it was received favorably for the most part and named the best film of the year by Stefania Heymanowa, among others. However, while the aim of the film was to portray Poles and Jews as one, it was viewed by the Polish press as a Jewish film and vice versa. The Jewish press criticized the Christian elements in the plot, Ilustrirter magazin spoke of so-called Jewish films, which had little in common with the Jewish spirit and Jewish culture.
release date
The film was released in Polish cinemas on December 3, 1925.
literature
- Charles Ford, Robert Hammond: Polish Film: A Twentieth Century History. McFarland, 2005. ISBN 1-4766-0803-2 . P. 41ff.
- Marek Haltof: Polish National Film. Berghahn Books, 2002. ISBN 1-78238-469-3 . P. 12
- Thorsten Muth: Judaism: History and Culture. Pressel, 2009. ISBN 3-937950-28-1 . P. 579
- Marcos Silber: Cinematic Motifs as a Seismograph: Kazimierz, the Vistula and Yiddish Filmmakers in Interwar Poland. In: Gal-Ed: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry. Volume 23, 2012, pp. 37-57. New version, section Jews and the Polish Spirit: Lamed-vovnik.
- Sheila Skaff: The history of cinema in Poland and the transition from silent to sound film, 1896-1939. University of Michigan., 2004. p. 65
- Sheila Skaff: The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939. Ohio University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-8214-1784-3 . P. 95f.
- Matthew Stevens: Jewish film directory: A guide to more than 1200 films of Jewish interest from 32 countries over 85 years. Flicks Books, 1992. ISBN 0-948911-72-7 . P. 154
Web links
- Lamed wow in the Internet Movie Database (English)