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Mamele
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Mamele ( ) is a Yiddish Language Polish musical film made in 1938.
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10.0Mamele embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz--tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, religious Jews celebrating sukkot--but the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role saving siblings, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age.
Cast
- Molly Picon
- Max Bozyk
- Ruth Turkow
- Maks Bryn
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- Poland
- Original language
- Yiddish
- Director
- Konrad Tom
- Screenwriter
- Konrad Tom
- Cast member
- Menashe Oppenheim
- Duration
- 97
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- publication date
- 1938-12-24
- production designer
- Jacek Rotmil
- different from
- Feliksa Kozłowska
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Mamele ( ) is a Yiddish Language Polish musical film made in 1938.
==Synopsis== Set in Łódź, the film revolves around Khavtshi Samet (Picon), a Cinderella figure, who has taken on maternal responsibility for her family after the death of her mother — hence the title, Mamele, or 'little mother.' Khavtshi is required to shop, cook and clean up after her unappreciative family. Furthermore, she must keep her siblings out of trouble: her younger brother gets mixed up with crooks and her sister Berta (Bullman) has eyes for the gangster Maks Katz (Menashe Oppenheim). Eventually Khavtshi's morale breaks, and she moves in with the handsome musician Schlesinger (Zayenda) across the courtyard. In this period of distress Khavtshi imagines the life of her grandmother in a dream-like song and dance sequence. The Samet family begs for Khavtshi to return, which she does with Schlesinger. The film closes with Khavtshi busy preparing the feast during her wedding.
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