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Jewish Luck
(Yevreiskoye Schastye)
$8 Special Event
Live Musical Accompaniment
Screening on Film
Recently Restored
Live Musical Accompaniment
Screening on Film
Recently Restored
Directed by Alexis Granovsky.
With Schlomo Mikhoels, Tamara Adelheim.
USSR, 1926, 35mm, black & white, silent, 100 min.
English intertitles.
With Schlomo Mikhoels, Tamara Adelheim.
USSR, 1926, 35mm, black & white, silent, 100 min.
English intertitles.
Based on stories by the Yiddish master, Shalom Aleichem, the movie tells of Menakhem Mendl (Mikhoels), who drifts from one failed get-rich-quick scheme to the next, reminding of the difficult Jewish plight under the Czars. J. Hoberman: "Affectionate but unsentimental. . . shot mainly in exteriors, Jewish Luck is almost semi-documentary in its representation of a tumbledown section of . . . the Ukraine’s archetypal Jewish town."
For this screening of a restored print from the National Center For Jewish Film, we have special accompanying live music: pianist Yakov Gubanov and violinist Mimi Radson combining on an original score by Gubanov.