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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

Hadass

Kerry Shale

Yeshiva Student

Derek Lyons

Yeshiva Student

Chris Parsons

Scholar

Peter Ross-Murray

Yeshiva Student

Lynda Baron

Peshe

Miriam Margolyes

Sarah

Peter Whitman

Yeshiva Student

Nehemiah Persoff

Reb Mendel 'Papa'

Teddy Kempner

Yeshiva Student

Mark English

Yeshiva Student

Mandy Patinkin

Avigdor

Barbra Streisand

(screenplay)

Bernard Spear

Tailor

Allan Corduner

Shimmele

Norma Atallah

Debra

David de Keyser

Rabbi Zalman

Steven Hill

Reb Alter Vishkower

Doreen Mantle

Mrs. Shaemen

Anthony Dean Rubes

Village Student

Danny Brainin

Yeshiva Student

Robbie Barnett

Tailor's Assistant

Ian Sears

David

Jack Rosenthal

(screenplay) and

Isaac Bashevis Singer

(story "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy")

Ruth Goring

Esther Rachel

Jack Lynn

Bookseller

Anna Tzelniker

Mrs. Kovner

Mary Henry

Mrs. Jacobs

Frank Baker

Village Student

movie genre

Drama, Musical, Romance

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