The Great Yiddish Love

  • Movie
  • 2002
  • 15m
  • Drama
  • Documentary

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.

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Director
Diane Nerwen
Starring
Marlene Dietrich, Zarah Leander, Molly Picon

Cast

  • Marlene Dietrich

    Marlene Dietrich

    (archive footage)

  • Zarah Leander

    Zarah Leander

    (archive footage)

  • Molly Picon

    Molly Picon

    Self - Narrator (voice) (archive footage)

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