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Hester Street is a 1975 drama film based on Abraham Cahan 's 1896 novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, and was adapted and directed by Joan Micklin Silver. The film stars Steven Keats and Carol Kane, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. In 2011, Hester Street was selected for preservation in the ...
Oct 15, 1975 · Hester Street: Directed by Joan Micklin Silver. With Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh. In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating.
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- Drama, Romance
- Joan Micklin Silver
- 1975-10-15
Page 1 of 4, 7 total items. Dealing with themes of assimilation, this film, set in the early 1900s, focuses on the experiences of an immigrant family in New York City. Gitl (Carol Kane) has just ...
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- Joan Micklin Silver
- PG
- Steven Keats
Oct 6, 2021 · Performed in a mix of English and Yiddish, “Hester Street” was Mickin Silver’s first feature film. It follows a down-on-his-luck playboy, Yaakov (Steven Keats, who changed his Polish Jewish ...
Hester Street is 21219 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 16418 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than The Revisionaries but less popular than Dolly Kitty and Those Twinkling Stars.
- Joan Micklin Silver
- 25
- Billy Natbony
- 90 min
Carol Kane was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Joan Micklin Silver’s first feature—a milestone in American independent cinema.30 Days of Great Cinema ...
- 2 min
- 2.4K
- MUBI
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