Film

The Jester

1937 · 1h 28m · Comedy · Drama

IMDb

7.2

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.

Zygmunt Turkow

Getsel

Miriam Kressyn

Esther

Eni Liton

Leah

Hymie Jacobson

Dick

Ayzyk Samburg

Reb Nukhem

Berta Litwine

Tsippe, Nukhem's wife

Max Bozyk

Reb Zurekh

Jakub Raynglas

3d Shoemaker

Jakub Fiszer

Faivel, the Matchmaker

Samuel Landau

Mekhele Zaidman

• Jan Nowina-PrzybylskiDirector
• Joseph GreenProducer · Director
• Joseph VictorScreenplay
• Seweryn SteinwurzelDirector of Photography
• Nikolaus BrodszkyOriginal Music Composer

Release date

January 2, 1937

Status

Released

Original language

Yiddish

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Comedy, Drama