Mamele

SCREENINGS

Pacific Film Archive (2009)
Vilnius ’09: European Capital of Culture, Cinema In The City (2009)
Stockholm Jewish Film Festival (2009)
Cape Town/ Johannesburg Yiddish Film Festival (2008)
Jerusalem Film Festival (2003)
Montreal Jewish Film Festival (2001)
Berkshire Jewish Film Festival (2001)
Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival (2001)
UCLA Film & TV Archive (2000)
Stockholm Jewish Film Festival (1999)

RESTORED 35MM PRINT WITH COMPLETE NEW SUBTITLES

Mamele is a musical comedy that embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz in all its diversity, with tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, and religious Jews celebrating Succoth. But the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role, saving siblings, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age.

Picon stars as Khavtshi, a young woman who promises her dying mother that she will take care of her family. She's so busy cooking, cleaning and matchmaking for her brothers and sisters that she barely has any time for herself, until she discovers the violinist across the courtyard! The musical score also includes Picon's trademark theme song, "Abi Gezunt."

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"Lot of fun and pleasant song numbers by Molly Picon... 90 minutes of laughter."
-The New York Times

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ALSO WITH MOLLY PICON

East and West

Yiddle with His Fiddle

ALSO DIRECTED BY JOSEPH GREEN

The Jester

A Letter to Mother

Yiddle with His Fiddle