Ivan and Abraham
by Yolande Zauberman
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Actor: Aleksandr Yakovlev (II), H?l?ne Lapiower, Mariya Lipkina, Roma Alexandrovitch, Vladimir MashkovDirector: Yolande Zauberman
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Polish (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); Yiddish (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 105 minutes
Release Date: 1998-11-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Studio: New Yorker Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Ivan and Abraham
Movie Review: Making love in Yiddish
Summary: 5 Stars
An extraordinarily rare film-- a movie shot in the 1990s with a gorgeous cast of young people speaking Yiddish. To see Yiddish as a living language, to see unfurled in the glory of modern cinematography a world that might have been and might still be is a truly magical experience. The film itself is good, and the cinematography is excellent. There is one of the most tasteful and beautiful love scenes of recent memory. It is a story of life in an Eastern European shtetl. The movie follows several plots, the central one a friendship between two young boys-- Ivan and Abraham, one Jewish, one non-Jewish. This story is encircled by a series of romances between two beautiful young people (both speaking Yiddish!), and a middle-aged married couple (also very sweet). The movie has elements of fairy-tale like lyricism tempered by brutal reality (who could make a story about the shtetl without a pogrom?) Only one facet of the film is an elegy. Mostly it sparkles a prayer of remembrance, a piece of art that gives testament to human kindness and endurance.
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