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The Jester

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Calorie Rating: 124
Released: 1937-01-02
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Studios: Green-Film,


Getsel, a wandering Purim player, comes to a Galica village and gets a job with Reb Nuchem, the shoemaker. He falls in love with Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, but knows she is in love with a wandering circus player. However, Getzel is content in his work and dreams. Esther's father inherits a fortune and attempts to marry her to a man of his choice, but she flees with Getzel to Warsaw, where he meets and marries the circus player. Getzel returns to the village and is blamed for Esther's disappearance until she shows up and explains what happened. Getzel shoulders his pack and wanders on to another village.

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Cast

Zygmunt Turkow
Character: Getsel
Miriam Kressyn
Character: Esther
Eni Liton
Character: Leah

Hymie Jacobson
Character: Dick
Ayzyk Samburg
Character: Reb Nukhem
Berta Litwine
Character: Tsippe, Nukhem's wife

Max Bozyk
Character: Reb Zurekh
Jakub Raynglas
Character: 3d Shoemaker
Jakub Fiszer
Character: Faivel, the Matchmaker

Samuel Landau
Character: Mekhele Zaidman


Production and Crew

I. Manger
Dialogue
Joseph Victor
Screenplay
Fritz Kleinman
Costume Design

Edward Hantower
Production Manager
Nikolaus Brodszky
Original Music Composer

Seweryn Steinwurzel
Director of Photography
Henry Vars
Music Director