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.
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Cast
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Zygmunt Turkow
Getsel
Also in
The Vow
Tkies khaf
Miriam Kressyn
Esther
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Eni Liton
Leah
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Hymie Jacobson
Dick
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Ayzyk Samburg
Reb Nukhem
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Berta Litwine
Tsippe, Nukhem's wife
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Max Bozyk
Reb Zurekh
Also in
The Dybbuk
Yiddle with His Fiddle
Jakub Raynglas
3d Shoemaker
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Jakub Fiszer
Faivel, the Matchmaker
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Samuel Landau
Mekhele Zaidman
Also in
The Dybbuk
Tkies khaf
Jan Nowina-Przybylski Director · Joseph Green Director Joseph Victor Screenplay
United States release December 5, 1937 · Produced in Poland, United States · Original title Der Purimshpiler
Production
Green-Film
Production
Poland · United States
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Original title
Der Purimshpiler
Original language
Yiddish
Spoken on screen
Yiddish
Release dates
Germany · January 2, 1937
Theatrical
United States · December 5, 1937
Theatrical · Distributed by Sphinx Films Corp. (English subtitles, by Julian Leigh)
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