Mirele Efros (1912)

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Movie
Original title Mirełe Efros
Country of production Russia
original language Yiddish
Publishing year 1912
Rod
Director Andrzej Marek
script Andrzej Marek
production Siła cinema
camera Stanislaw Sebel
occupation

Mirele Efros (Polish OT Mirełe Efros ) is a Polish silent film from 1912. It is based on the play of the same name by Jakob Gordin from 1898 and is one of the earliest Yiddish silent films.

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Mirele is a woman of a little over 50 who, after her husband's death, tries to lead her family with a strict hand. The daughter-in-law and the daughter fight back. It breaks. After ten years they try a reconciliation.

production

The film was a production by theater director Abraham Kamiński with his Yiddish theater from Warsaw. It was the first film role for his wife Esther Rachel Kamińska, who already made a big impression as Mirele in theater performances in Warsaw and New York. Her daughters Regina and Ida also starred in a film for the first time.

In 1939 the play was remade by Josef Berne in the USA .

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