An ascetic young scholar ventures into the Lithuanian countryside, searching for the city of “true Jews.” The most critically acclaimed and beloved of American Yiddish talkies, Edgar G. Ulmer’s soulful open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. Green Fields celebrates an idyllic world of tribal wholeness and innate piety – no other movie has ever represented the shtetl with such lyricism.
USA, 1937, 97 minutes, B&W Yiddish with new English subtitles Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami
