The Great Yiddish Love

(en)

2002

15m

Drama

Documentary

Overview: 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.

Status: Released

Release date: January 1, 2002

Countries of origin: United States of America,

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