American Matchmaker - A Edgar G. Ulmer Film Classic Yiddish / English Subtitles
Code: DVD_Amer_Shadkhn
$39.95
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USA, 1940, 87 minutes, B&W Yiddish with English subtitles Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer Leo Fuchs, known on Second Avenue as 'the Yiddish Fred Astaire,' plays an elegant and eligible bachelor who can never seem to close the marriage deal. Edgar G. Ulmer�s last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation. With its urbane, neurotic hero, American Matchmaker looks ahead to the films of Woody Allen Also included, the hilarious short I Want to Be a Boarder � a small classic of Yiddish absurdism � showcases Fuch�s comic virtuosity
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