The Angel Levine (1970)

Directed by

Ján Kadár

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly Jewish tailor in New York struggles with unemployment and his wife's illness. His faith is tested when a stranger appears, claiming to be his guardian angel and needing the tailor to believe in him.

intimatecontemplativeearnestwistfulgroundedgentlemildly surrealslow-paced

What happens

The Angel Levine is a 1970 American drama film directed by Ján Kadár and starring Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kamińska, Milo O'Shea, and Gloria Foster. It is based on a short story by Bernard Malamud about Morris Mishkin, an elderly, impoverished New York City tailor who becomes unable to work due to health problems. His wife has also been seriously ill for two years, and their situation is now desperate. The tailor's Jewish faith, or lack of it, is challenged when a man calling himself Alexander Levine enters his life, claiming to be his guardian angel. Levine says that he must make the tailor believe in his mission, or fail to earn his angelic wings. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• The Customer of the Off Season (1970)
• The Way We Live Now (1970)
• Jenny (1970)
• Loving (1970)
• Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
• I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
• Zabriskie Point (1970)
• The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)