Green Fields (film)
1937
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Singing Blacksmith Released Nov 2, 1938 1 hr. 56 min. Drama List Reviews Apprenticed to the blacksmith Bendet (Ben-Zvi Baratoff) at age 15, Yankel (Moishe Oysher) grows up a heartless...
The Singing Blacksmith: Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, Ben-Zvi Baratoff, Ossip Dymow. With Moyshe Oysher, Miriam Riselle, Florence Weiss, Anna Appel. Moishe Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch.
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- Drama, Musical
- Edgar G. Ulmer, Ben-Zvi Baratoff, Ossip Dymow
- 1938-11-01
2 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: Yiddish film featuring the singing of Moyshe Oysher. trb-2 20 April 1999. Yankl der Shmid, the Singing Blacksmith, was filmed in New Jersey in the late 1930's. It was originally a play, simplified and brought to the screen as a vehicle to show off the singing talents of Moyshe Oysher as Yankl.
Moishe Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Ulmer's film is a musical version of David Pinski's ...
1 ★★★★★ rating (5%) ★★★★★. Popular reviews. More. ★★★. Edgar G. Ulmer touches on Jewish match-making and the male ego. I really liked the setting here. Might only be a basic romance dilemma, but the rural Jewish settings and the characters themselves made the most of it and I found myself loving a lot of this. ★★★★.
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.
