The Great Yiddish Love

Original title: The Great Yiddish Love

15 minutes • 2002 • 0.0 Score

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.

Diane Nerwen

Director

Drama

Documentary

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