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The Great Yiddish Love

The Great Yiddish Love

2002

N/R

Categories:

  • Drama
  • Documentary

Overview:

Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and betrayal reassembled from Hollywood, German Ufa and Yiddish films from the 1930s and 40s.

Diane Nerwen

Writer, Director

Cast:

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  • Marlene Dietrich

    Marlene Dietrich

    (archive footage)
  • Zarah Leander

    Zarah Leander

    (archive footage)
  • Molly Picon

    Molly Picon

    Self - Narrator (voice...