The Great Yiddish Love
2002•15m•Released
DramaDocumentary
Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and betrayal reassembled from Hollywood, German Ufa and Yiddish films from the 1930s and 40s.
Director
Diane Nerwen
Writer
Diane Nerwen
Languages
English, German, Yiddish
Cast
Marlene Dietrich
(archive footage)
Zarah Leander
(archive footage)
Molly Picon
Self - Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
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