UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15747414
Format:
1 DVD-Video (92 Min.)
Content:
"The play Romeo and Juliet has been translated around the world. Now film director Eve Annenberg̷s gritty, funny feature sets William Shakespeare̷s Romeo and Juliet in contemporary New York City with Brooklyn-inflected English and Yiddish delivered by a dynamic cast. Aside from several Yiddish videos produced by the Orthodox community in Monsey, New York, Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish is the first film spoken in as much Yiddish in almost 60 years. Ava, a wisecracking middle-aged E.R. nurse̶and bitterly lapsed Orthodox Jew̶undertakes a translation of Shakespeare̷s Romeo and Juliet from old Yiddish to new Yiddish, in her pursuit of a Master̷s degree. In over her head, she accepts help from two charismatic and ethically challenged, charming young Ultra Orthodox dropouts, Lazer and Mendy. When another ex-Orthodox leaver enchants her apartment with Kabbalah magic, the boys begin to live Shakespeare̷s play in their heads, in a gauzy and lyrical alternate reality where everyone is Orthodox." (Nancy Fishman Film Releasing)
Note:
Orig.: USA, 2010.
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Ländercode: ohne Angabe
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engl. UT
Language:
English
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