Without a Home (1939)

Original title

On a heym

Directed by

Aleksander Marten

Genre

Jewish film

Country

Poland

Runtime

1h 13m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is the last Yiddish language film made in Poland before World War II. It follows Jewish families struggling with poverty in Poland and their difficult efforts to build new lives in America.

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What happens

On a hajm (auf Deutsch: Ohne Heim; polnisch Bezdomni) ist der letzte jiddischsprachige Film in Polen vor dem Einmarsch der deutschen Wehrmacht. Er basiert auf einem Text von Jacob Gordin und beschreibt die Armut vieler jüdischer Familien in Polen und die großen Schwierigkeiten, in den USA eine neue Existenz aufzubauen. An dem Film waren einige renommierte jiddische Schauspieler aus Warschau beteiligt wie Aleksander Marten, Ida Kamińska, Wiera Gran sowie das Komikerduo Dżigan und Schumacher. Der Film hatte im Januar 1939 Premiere. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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