Menashe 2017

imdb-logo 6.5 / 10

Menashe

Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son.

Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son.

Videos & Photos

All 1 Videos & 8 Photos

User reviews

See All 1 Reviews

29 Aug 2023 by badelf

The production is okay, but too many questions here with no answers. Generally, theater is all about exposing who we are as humans. Zero of that is visible here.

Genres:

Drama

Release Date:

Jul 28, 2017 (Israel,United States)

Run Time:

1hr 22`

MMPA Rating:

Original Language:

Yiddish

Production Countries:

Israel,United States

Status:

Released

Related Movies To

Menashe

Write Review

Found 1 reviews in total

29 Aug 2023 by badelf

The production is okay, but too many questions here with no answers. Generally, theater is all about exposing who we are as humans. Zero of that is visible here.

Cast & Crew of

Menashe

Directors & Credit Writers

... Director

Cast

... Fischel

... Dovid

... Moishe

... Luis

... Landlord

Produced By

... Executive Producer

... Producer

... Producer

Videos & Photos of

Menashe

Videos ( 1)

Photos ( 8 )

Related Movies To

Menashe

Found 12 Movies in total

poster-Overture to Glory
Overture to Glory (1940)

6.9 /10

A humble cantor, Oysher yearns to be an opera singer. He deserts his tiny village to pursue his dream, but when his voice breaks he sheepishly returns, resigned to attending but not singing at the Yom Kippur services. Upon his return, Oysher is informed that his son has died. Out of grief is wrought a miracle: Oysher's voice returns, more powerful than ever. After performing the Day of Atonement services, Oysher suddenly collapses, peacefully joining his son in death. If you wish to see the touching Overture to Glory, by all means seek out a decent print; many extant copies are so washed out that, not only are the English subtitles unreadable, but it's extremely difficult to tell one actor from another.

Run Time: 1hr 25` . MMPA: . Release: 11 Feb 1940

Director: Max Nosseck

Producer: Ludwig Landy , Ira Greene

Stars: Moyshe Oysher , Florence Weiss , Maurice Krohner , John Mylong , Helen Beverly , Baby Winkler

poster-Motel the Operator
Motel the Operator (1940)

5.9 /10

Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide. The richly-rendered beautiful Yiddish songs by Sholem Secunda featuring Cantor Leibele Waldman and Joel Feig's famous choir are a good example of the bittersweet melodrama in the finest tradition of the Yiddish theater.

Run Time: 1hr 28` . MMPA: . Release: 15 Jan 1940

Director: Joseph Seiden , Herman Rosen

Producer:

Stars: Chaim Tauber , Malvina Rappel , Maurice Kroner , Berthe Hart , Seymour Rechtzeit , Jacob Zanger

poster-The Yiddish King Lear
The Yiddish King Lear (1934)

6.1 /10

Setting off from Vilna to spend his last days in the Holy Land, an arrogant old man spurns the youngest of his three daughters and leaves his fortune in the wrong hands.

Run Time: 1hr 10` . MMPA: . Release: 01 Oct 1934

Director: Harry Thomashefsky

Producer: Johnnie Walker , Jack Rieger

Stars: Esther Adler , Jacob Bergreen , Miriam Grossman , Maurice Krohner , Fannie Levenstein , Eddie Pascal

poster-The Singing Blacksmith
The Singing Blacksmith (1938)

6.6 /10

Moishe Oysher, the renowned cantor and star of Yiddish radio, stars in Edgar G. Ulmer’s musical version of David Pinski’s play Yankl der Shmid. Singing, dancing, and flashing his eyes, Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Recently rediscovered footage makes this the most complete extant version of Ulmer’s lively folk operetta, replete with an example of Yiddish swing.

Run Time: 1hr 56` . MMPA: NR . Release: 01 Nov 1938

Director: Ossip Dymow , Edgar G. Ulmer , Ben-Zvi Baratoff

Producer: Ludwig Landy , Roman Rebush

Stars: Moise Oysher , Miriam Riselle , Florence Weiss , Anna Appel , Michael Goldstein , Lea Noemi

poster-The Jester
The Jester (1937)

7.2 /10

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.

Run Time: 1hr 28` . MMPA: . Release: 02 Jan 1937

Director: Jan Nowina-Przybylski , Joseph Green

Producer: Joseph Green , Edward Hantower

Stars: Zygmunt Turkow , Miriam Kressyn , Eni Liton , Hymie Jacobson , Ayzyk Samburg , Berta Litwine

poster-SHTTL
SHTTL (2023)

8 /10

June 1941. Preparations for the wedding of a butcher’s son and a rabbi’s daughter are in full swing in a Jewish shtetl in the Lviv Region. The intrigue of this seemingly ordinary event is that Yuna – the bride – loves another man and he, Mendele… plans to kidnap her. At this very time, a Nazi death squad is approaching the shtetl.

Run Time: 1hr 49` . MMPA: . Release: 19 Oct 2023

Director: Denis Shvetsov , Ady Walter

Producer: Yuriy Artemenko , Olias Barco , Margaryta Grebenchikova

Stars: Moshe Lobel , Saul Rubinek , Emily Karpel , Filipp Mogilnitskiy , Oleksandr Ivanov , Valeria Shpak

poster-Broken Barriers
Broken Barriers (1919)

5.6 /10

This 1919 silent is the first American film based on the same Sholem Aleichem stories as Fiddler on the Roof, but produced 50 years before the blockbuster musical. Unlike most adaptations of Aleichem’s work, Broken Barriers (Khavah) focuses not on Tevye the milkman, but on his daughter Khavah, who falls in love with the gentile boy Fedka and must navigate the reverberations from this with both her community and her family.

Run Time: 1hr 16` . MMPA: NR . Release: 01 Jan 1919

Director: Charles E. Davenport

Producer: Meyer Kehlmann , Leopold Kehlmann

Stars: Alice Hastings , Alexander Tenenholtz , Giacomo Masuroff , Billie Wilson , Sonia Radin , Phil Sanford

poster-Mirele Efros
Mirele Efros (1939)

0 /10

Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community. This sophisticated version of his stage classic faithfully recreates Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Grodno, Poland.

Run Time: 1hr 20` . MMPA: . Release: 20 Oct 1939

Director: Josef Berne

Producer:

Stars: Berta Gersten , Ruth Elbaum , Albert Lipton , Michael Rosenberg , Moishe Feder

poster-East Side
East Side (2020)

0 /10

East Side is a brand new yiddish DVD written and directed by Ari Abramowitz. Thrilling, exciting, dramatic and emotional, perfect for the entire family.

Run Time: 2hr 2` . MMPA: NR . Release: 16 Dec 2020

Director:

Producer:

Stars:

poster-Her Second Mother
Her Second Mother (1940)

5.8 /10

A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents' kindness by shielding their biological child, who has gotten involved with an embezzler, from the police.

Run Time: 1hr 29` . MMPA: . Release: 08 Nov 1940

Director: Joseph Seiden

Producer: Joseph Seiden

Stars: Esta Salzman , Max Badin , Rose Greenfield , Margaret Schoenfeld , Jacob Zanger , Yetta Zwerling

poster-Where Is My Child?
Where Is My Child? (1937)

0 /10

Celia Adler, doyenne of the Yiddish stage, gives a haunting performance as a new immigrant forced to give up her son. Obsessed with the thought of reuniting with him, she spends the next 25 years searching, pining, and bewailing her loss.

Run Time: 1hr 35` . MMPA: NR . Release: 23 Nov 1937

Director: Henry Lynn , Abraham Leff

Producer:

Stars: Celia Adler , Morris Strassberg , Morris Silberkasten , Anna Lillian , Mischa Stutchkof , Ceril Arnon

poster-Eli Eli
Eli Eli (1940)

6.6 /10

Mendel and Hannah Shapiro, an elderly Jewish couple who run a small farm in New Jersey, must get money to meet their mortgage payment to the bank by the next day to keep their farm. Mendel calls their children, Mollie, in Philadelphia, and Morris, in New York, to come right away. His neighbor Michel believes that most children do not properly care for their parents and insinuates that Mendel's children would not come to visit if they knew that their parents needed money. Mendel, however, assures Michel that children are the best investment one can make.

Run Time: 1hr 28` . MMPA: . Release: 27 Sep 1940

Director: Herman Rosen , Joseph Seiden

Producer: Joseph Seiden

Stars: Max Badin , Esther Field , Izidor Frankel , Lazar Freed , Eddie Friedlander , Rose Greenfield