Hester Street

Blu-ray - 2022

It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. He has assimilated to American life, but when his wife comes, she is having more trouble than he did.

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Subjects
Genres
Feature films
Historical films
Film adaptations
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[New York] : Cohen Media Group [2022]
Language
English
Yiddish
Other Authors
Joan Micklin Silver (film director), Raphael D. Silver (film producer), Steven Keats, 1945-1994 (actor), Carol Kane, 1952- (arranger of music), Doris Roberts, 1925-2016 (-), Mel Howard, William Bolcom, Abraham Cahan, 1860-1951
Item Description
Title from sell sheet.
Based on the novel Yekl, by Abraham Cahan.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.
Wide screen.
Bonus features: two new interviews with director Joan Micklin Silver by Shonni Enelow; archival audio commentary track with director Joan Micklin Silver and producer Raphael Silver; archival interviews with key cast and crew members; original opening title sequence and outtakes with audio commentary by Daniel Kremer, author of an upcoming book about Joan Micklin Silver; restoration trailer.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
Blu-ray, wide screen; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG.
Production Credits
Cinematography, Kenneth Van Sickle ; editor, Katherine Wenning ; music, William Bolcom.