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Año: 1939. Título original: The Light Ahead. Sinopsis: Rusia, siglo XIX. En una ciudad judía, caracterizada por su extrema pobreza, dos jóvenes, ella ciega y él cojo, intentan construir una relación sentimental en medio de los rumores de una epidemia de cólera.
The Light Ahead: Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. With David Opatoshu, Helen Beverley, Isidore Cashier, Rosetta Bialis. In a small town in Russia in the 1880s, two young but poor lovers are helped by a wise old bookseller.
One of the most important films in NCJF’s archive collection, The Light Ahead is arguably the finest of the four Yiddish films directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Here, the director counterpoints his pastoral Green Fields to criticize the poverty and superstition that oppress a pair of star-crossed lovers.
The Light Ahead/Fishke der KrumerRestored with new English subtitles by The National Center for Jewish Filmhttp://www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/lightahe...
Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and painfully conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free from the poverty and stifling old-world prejudices of the shtetl.
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Made just on the brink of the Second World War, Edgar Ulmer’s The Light Ahead tells the story of two lovers, Fishke (David Opatoshu) and Hodel (Helen Beverley), whose physical disabilities and poverty leave them on the margins of society.
