Hester Street 1975 123movies

Watch: Hester Street 1975 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1896, Russian Jew Yankel Bogovnik has been in the United States for three years and settled where many of his background have: Hester Street, on New York City’s Lower East Side. He has assimilated to American life – learned English, anglicized his name to Jake, and shaved off his beard. He is working at a $12/week job as a seamster, saving up his earnings to be can bring his wife Gitl and their son Yossele to America from Russia. Although he has fallen in love with dancer Mamie Fein, he’s overjoyed when he learns that Gitl and Yossele are coming to America. His happiness at their arrival is damped when he sees that Gitl isn’t “American-looking like Mamie and is having trouble assimilating as quickly as he would like. Except to Mamie, he tries to show a public façade that everything is fine at home with Gitl. But can their marriage survive these differences, and if not, will Gitl be able to manage in this new land where she has little support?.
Plot: A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he’s molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York’s Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
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	7.0/10 Votes: 1,494
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Once Upon a Time On Hester Street
Joan Micklin Silver’s directorial debut is a lovely, funny, warm, and observant historical drama-comedy about Jewish immigrants who left the little shtetl in Russia in the end of the 19th century for the hopes of better life and success in America. The film tells the story of a young couple, Jake (Steven Keats) and Gitl (Carol Kane). The husband came to Lower East End of Manhattan five years before his family and has gladly accepted American way of life making transition from Yankel to a Yankee, losing his beard and side curls on a way to become a real American and falling in love with Mamie Fine, attractive and independent young woman, an immigrant herself. When his wife Gitl and their son Yossi (Joey) arrive from Russia and join him in the flat at Hester Street, Jake is torn between his desire “to live like educated people in an educated country” and his wife’s quiet but firm holding on to the traditions of Old Country. More likely, their marriage was arranged by their families in Russia and they don’t have much in common when they meet after having lived separately in two different worlds for five years. The film concentrates on Gitl, quiet, gentle, pious seemingly fragile and naive young woman with huge dark eyes who has to make very serious decisions about her new life and how to make sense of it.

Everything about this small independent movie is fine – its authentic look that was achieved by beautiful B/W cinematography, its soundtrack that uses the music by Herbert L. Clarke, a composer and famous cornet player; the dialogs in two languages, English and Yiddish, full of very unique humor that still shines. There are no villains in the story and no stereotypes. All characters have one thing in common – one day, they took a chance to start over, to leave their past behind, to movie to the absolutely new unknown world with the different language, customs, traditions, rhythm of life and to try to survive and succeed and not to lose their unique identity. Comic, moving, warm, lyrical, with the loving attention to the smallest details, with the love and understanding for its characters, “Hester street” is a perfect example of an independent art movie that was made on the shoe string budget, had difficulties to find distributors, but luckily did not get lost, found its way to the viewers, and brought Jewish ethnicity to the screen. One does not have to be an Art movie buff or an immigrant to enjoy “Hester Street”. The simple story of a young traditional woman’s transformation and coming to terms with her new life can be enjoyed by any viewer regardless their age, gender, or ethnic background.

Carol Cane is fantastic as Gitl and more than deserves her Academy Award nomination for the Best Leading Actress. Doris Roberts (Marie of “Everybody Loves Raymond”) is equally good as Gitl’s and Jake’s neighbor, Mrs. Kavisnky who becomes Gitl’s friend and adviser.

You can’t pee up my back and make me think it’s rain.
Carol Kane and Doris Roberts were stellar in their performances. Kane played Gitl, a young Russian Yiddish Jewish wife who immigrates to America with her son, Yossel, who is later renamed Joey. She discovered the changes in her husband, Yankel who becomes Jake. They are ultra orthodox Jews who have left the shetls in Russia and Poland for America. Doris Roberts played the neighbor and friend who helped Gitl in a dysfunctional marriage. The cast is first-rate and the film starts with Yiddish and turns to English over time. The film director, Joan Micklin Silver, did an excellent job in directing this film. Carol Kane was honored with Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Doris Roberts was also terrific in her role as Mrs. Kavarsky. There are notable performances by the supporting cast members. This film should be studied for a variety of reasons. A great film overall.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Joan Micklin Silver
Writer Joan Micklin Silver, Abraham Cahan
Actors Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 3 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Movielab, New York (NY), USA (processing)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm