GREEN FIELDS
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 7:30 PM
Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami (95min, USA, 1937). Film still and restoration of the film with new English Subtitles by The National Center For Jewish Film.
In Yiddish with English Subtitles.
Narrative
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An ascetic young scholar ventures into the Lithuanian countryside, searching for the city of "true Jews." The most critically acclaimed and beloved of American Yiddish talkies, Edgar G. Ulmer’s soulful open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. Green Fields celebrates an idyllic world of tribal wholeness and innate piety – no other movie has ever represented the shtetl with such lyricism.
