The Jester (1937)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1937-01-02
Runtime: 88 minutes
Director: Jan Nowina-Przybylski
Top Cast
- Zygmunt Turkow as Getsel
- Miriam Kressyn as Esther
- Eni Liton as Leah
- Hymie Jacobson as Dick
- Ayzyk Samburg as Reb Nukhem
- Berta Litwine as Tsippe, Nukhem's wife
- Max Bozyk as Reb Zurekh
- Jakub Raynglas as 3d Shoemaker
- Jakub Fiszer as Faivel, the Matchmaker
- Samuel Landau as Mekhele Zaidman
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