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Hester Street (1975) Joan Micklin Silver

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Hester Street, Joan Micklin Silver (1975)

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Hester Street (Joan Micklin Silver, 1975)

Cast: Carol Kane, Steven Keats, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Doris Roberts, Stephen Strimpel, Lauren Friedman, Paul Freedman, Martin Garner, Leib Lensky, Zane Lasky, Zvee Scooler, Eda Reiss Merin. Screenplay: Joan Micklin Silver, based on a novel by Abraham Cahan. Cinematography: Kenneth Van Sickle. Production design: Stuart Wurtzel. Film editing: Katherine Wenning. Music: William Bolcom, Herbert L. Clarke. 

Gitl (Carol Kane) joins her immigrant husband Yankel (Steven Keats) in turn-of-the-century New York City, and discovers that he is no longer the modest, religiously observant man she knew in the old country. He has picked up American slang, while she speaks only Yiddish, and calls himself Jake while insisting that their son, Yossele (Paul Freedman) be called Joey. He has also taken up with a flashy Americanized woman named Mamie (Dorrie Kavanaugh). With the help of their neighbor, Mrs. Kavarsky (Doris Roberts), Gitl learns how to adapt to the new world, shed herself of Jake, and find a new, more suitable husband. Kane received an Oscar nomination for best actress in writer-director Joan Micklin Silver's first feature. Low-key, warm-hearted, and amusing, Hester Street evokes silent movies in its well-crafted depiction of the era in which it's set. 

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Hester Street ist ein schöner, ruhiger und beherzt Fiddler-on-the-Roof-klischeefreier Film über das Leben der osteuropäischen Immigranten in der Lower East Side in den 1890ern und ihre unterschiedliche Fähigkeit, sich den neuen Gegebenheiten anzupassen. Diese äußert sich auch unterschiedlich, weshalb die Freude darüber, daß die dem traditionellen Frauen- und Gattinenbild ganz besonders verhaftete frisch angekommene (und ganz außerordentlich hinreißende) Carol Kane schließlich dahinter kommt, daß sie so auch bekommen kann, was sie möchte, ganz besonders groß ist.

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Hester Street (1975)