The Jester
1937 · 88 min
Comedy · Drama
★ 7.0Getsel, 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.
Crew
- Director Jan Nowina-Przybylski
- Director Joseph Green
- Screenplay Joseph Victor
- Director of Photography Seweryn Steinwurzel
Cast
Crew
- Director — Jan Nowina-Przybylski
- Director — Joseph Green
- Screenplay — Joseph Victor
- Director of Photography — Seweryn Steinwurzel
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