Movie
The Jester
1937 · 88 min
A bittersweet, music-filled tale of longing and wandering, where gentle comedy and quiet heartbreak blend in a bygone village world.
- Directed by
- Jan Nowina-Przybylski, Joseph Green
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Starring
- Zygmunt Turkow, Miriam Kressyn, Eni Liton
- Overview
- Getsel, a wandering Purim player, comes to a Galica village and gets a job with Reb Nuchem, the shoemaker. He falls in love with Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, but knows she is in love with a wandering circus player. However, Getzel is content in his work and dreams. Esther's father inherits a fortune and attempts to marry her to a man of his choice, but she flees with Getzel to Warsaw, where he meets and marries the circus player. Getzel returns to the village and is blamed for Esther's disappearance until she shows up and explains what happened. Getzel shoulders his pack and wanders on to another village.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, warm, whimsical and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Love, class, identity, family
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Jan Nowina-Przybylski, Joseph Green
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Starring
- Zygmunt Turkow, Miriam Kressyn, Eni Liton
