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Story
In an Ashkenazic shtetl in Poland, Yentl Mendel is the boyishly klutzy daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe ("Talmud Teacher") Mendel, who teaches Talmud (a codification of Jewish Law) to local boys - and to Yentl, but secretly because girls were not allowed to learn the law in those days. When her father dies, Yentl is all alone in the world. She takes the momentous decision to leave the village and - disguised as a boy and calling herself by the name of her late brother, Anshel - seeks and gets admitted to a Yeshiva, to study the texts, traditions, subtleties and complexities of Torah, Talmud, etc. She befriends Avigdor who is engaged to Haddas, but her family discovers his brother committed suicide so they call off the wedding (in case Avigdor possesses the same madness). Anshel then finds "him"-self in the awkward position of being called into service as substitute bridegroom, so that the wedding can go ahead and Haddas will have a husband. It is a marriage that never ...
movie langauges
English, Hebrew
movie countries
United Kingdom, United States
movie cast
Amy Irving
Kerry Shale
Derek Lyons
Chris Parsons
Peter Ross-Murray
Lynda Baron
Miriam Margolyes
Peter Whitman
Nehemiah Persoff
Teddy Kempner
Mark English
Mandy Patinkin
Barbra Streisand
Bernard Spear
Allan Corduner
Norma Atallah
David de Keyser
Steven Hill
Doreen Mantle
Anthony Dean Rubes
Danny Brainin
Robbie Barnett
Ian Sears
Jack Rosenthal
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ruth Goring
Jack Lynn
Anna Tzelniker
Mary Henry
Frank Baker
movie genre
Drama, Musical, Romance
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