Green Fields (1937)

גרינע פֿעלדער

Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of "true Jews," he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in as a tutor for their children.

Date of release
1937-01-01
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Edgar G. Ulmer

Casting

Interesting facts

Green Fields is a 1937 American comedy-drama Yiddish film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami. The film features child actor Herschel Bernardi, later to be an adult star on Broadway, in films and on television.

Production

On 31 December 1936, Yiddle with His Fiddle opened in New York. Its success convinced producer Roman Rebush that Yiddish cinema had a large potential market. Rebush was joined by distributor Ludwig Landy, and the two hired director Edgar G. Ulmer. He had much experience with the East Coast's ethnic film industry, which manufactured low-cost pictures for immigrants in their native languages.

The director later claimed that his budget was no more than $8,000, though at the time of release the figure $30,000 was given. While film scholar J. Hoberman judged his accounts to be somewhat unreliable, he did not contest that Green Fields was made under harsh conditions.

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