The Yiddish King Lear

Name: The Yiddish King Lear
Genre: Drama
Released: 1934
Duration: 70 min
Rating: 9.5

1934 · 70 min

Drama

★ 9.5

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Setting off from Vilna to spend his last days in the Holy Land, an arrogant old man spurns the youngest of his three daughters and leaves his fortune in the wrong hands.

Crew

Director Harry Thomashefsky
Writer Abraham Armband
Director of Photography Joseph Freeman

Cast

M
Maurice Krohner
David Moshele, the Yiddish King Lear
F
Fannie Levenstein
Hanna Lear, Mosheles' wife
J
Jacob Bergreen
Joffe
M
Miriam Grossman
Toibelle, Mosheles' youngest daughter
E
Eddie Pascal
Shomoi
R
Rose Schwartzberg
Servant
M
Morris Weisman
Abraham Chariff
J
Jeannette Paskewich
Estelle, Mosheles' eldest daughter
M
Morris Tarlowsky
Moses Chorid
E
Esther Adler
Gitelle, Mosheles' second daughter
H
Harold Schutzman
A
Anne G. Sterling
Attractive Girl (uncredited)

Crew

Director — Harry Thomashefsky
Writer — Abraham Armband
Director of Photography — Joseph Freeman

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