AWARDS
BEST FOREIGN FILM 1938 (France)
SCREENINGS
Edgar G. Ulmer Retrospective, Filmhouse Cinema, UK (2009)
HOLLYWOOD ON THE HUDSON: FILMMAKING IN NEW YORK, 1920-1939
The Museum of Modern Art; New York, NY (2008)
Cape Town/ Johannesburg Yiddish Film Festival (2008)
UC Berkley Art Museum, Berkley, California (2005)
Toronto Jewish Film Festival (2005)
Haifa Jewish Film Festival (2005)
British Film Institution (2004)
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York (2004)
Rhode Island Film Festival (2004)
NEWLY
RESTORED 35MM PRINT WITH COMPLETE NEW SUBTITLES
An ascetic
young scholar ventures into the Lithuanian countryside, searching for
the city of “true Jews.” The most critically acclaimed and
beloved of American Yiddish talkies, Edgar G. Ulmer’s soulful open-air
adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play heralded the Golden
Age of Yiddish cinema. Green
Fields celebrates an idyllic world of tribal wholeness
and innate piety – no other movie has ever represented the shtetl
with such lyricism.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
“Rejecting
the already familiar immigrant saga, this groundbreaking Yiddish pastoral
turns instead to the lost world of the Eastern European shtetl (stunningly
recreated in New Jersey by Edgar G. Ulmer's newsreel crews).”
- The Museum
of Modern Art, New York (2008 Screening)
“The
cast is brilliant… The direction by Jacob Ben-Ami and Edgar G. Ulmer
has caught the beauty and poetry of the classic work and transferred it
to the screen in a masterful manner.”
– The Film Daily, 20 Oct. 1937
“A new
high in vernacular art!”
– New York World Telegram
“Sunlit
and air-filled, yet suffused with yearning, the film recalls Renoir and
Vigo... It exudes a dreamy pantheism...”
– J. Hoberman, Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds
ARTICLES
"REPRESENTING
THE SHTETL ON FILM"
Jewish Herald-Voice Houston, October 2005
CREDITS
Directed by
Edgar G. Ulmer, Jacob Ben-Ami
Original play by Peretz Hirshbein
Music by Vladimir Heifetz
Starring Michael Goldstein, Helen Beverly, Isidore Cashier,
Anna Appel, Leah Noemi, Max Vodnoy, Saul Levine,
Herschel Bernardi, Dena Drute
PURCHASE DVD
Green
Fields
$36.00 plus shipping
Home Use Only DVD (Not for Classroom/Institutional
Use)
Does
not include Public Performance Rights
Home
Use Policy (pdf) |
Green
Fields
$72.00 plus shipping
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DVD
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Use Policy (pdf) |
PURCHASE ALL 4 EDGAR
ULMER YIDDISH CLASSICS
The
Edgar Ulmer Collection
$126.00 plus shipping
Home Use Only DVD (Not for Classroom/Institutional
Use) Does
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Use Policy (pdf) |
The
Edgar Ulmer Collection
$252.00 plus shipping
Classroom/Institutional Use Only
DVD Does
not include Public Performance Rights
Institutional
Use Policy (pdf) |
ALSO BASED ON A PERETZ
HIRSCHBEIN PLAY
A
Vilna Legend
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