[Mendele] MENDELE PERSONAL NOTICES & ANNOUNCEMENTS--"THE LIGHT AHEAD" Tue, March 1, 6:15 pm at the Washington DC JCC Special Event

Victor Bers victor.bers at yale.edu
Tue Feb 9 20:54:43 EST 2016


MENDELE PERSONAL NOTICES & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Feb. 9, 2016

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From: Lisa Rivo <lisarivo at brandeis.edu>
Date: Feb. 9, 2016


The National Center for Jewish Film film screening at the Washington Jewish
Film Festival

"THE LIGHT AHEAD"
Tue, March 1, 6:15 pm at the Washington DC JCC

Special Event 1939 Yiddish Film Classic Restored by The National Center for
Jewish Film

Post Film Q&A with Sharon Pucker Rivo & Lisa Rivo, NCJF co-directors

Lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free from
the poverty and old-world prejudices of the shtetl. The benevolent
bookseller Mendele helps them, turning small-town superstitions to their
advantage. Based on Mendele Mokher Seforim's story, this luminous allegory
of escape marries Edgar Ulmer's masterful direction with superb acting
by members of New York's The Artef and Yiddish Art Theater. Made on the
eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist,
and conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. (USA, 1939, 94
min, Yiddish with new English subtitles, Produced & Directed by Edgar G.
Ulmer)

"A riveting performance by Helen Beverley...Beverley and Opatoshu are
perhaps the most beautiful couple in the history of Yiddish cinema, and
their scenes have a touching erotic chemistry."  --J. Hoberman, Bridge of
Light

"A gem radiating warmth and honesty." --Jewish Weekly

"Astonishing...equal parts vaudeville schtick, Talmudic exegesis,
and ghetto melodrama." --Village Voice

More info on the film: www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/lightahead.htm
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