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television days, told in vignettes
of the protagonist's childhood in
Brooklyn.
Kaminska, Eli Wallach. Bernard
Malamud's story of a black angel
trying to help an old Jewish man.
School Ties 1992. Directed by
Robert Mandel. With Brendan
Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris
O'Donnell. A star quarterback at
a prep school in the '50s hides his
Jewishness.
Commissar 1968. Directed by
Alexander Askoldov. With Non-
na Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov.
Just released in the U.S. in 1988,
this film was labeled as treason
and shelved in Red Russia. Dur-
ing the civil war of 1922, a Sovi-
et soldier becomes pregnant and
is dumped on a family of outcast
Jews to complete her pregnancy.
Sofie 1992. Directed by Liv Ull-
mann. With Karen-Lice Mynster,
Ghita Norby. A Jewish family in
late 19th-century Denmark,
adapted from Henri Nathanson's
novel Mendel Philipsen and Son.
Ullmann's directorial debut.
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Sophie's Choice 1982. Directed
by Alan J. Pakula. With Meryl
Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter Mac-
Nicol. Based on the autobiogra-
phy by William Styron; the story
of a Polish Auschwitz survivor try-
ing to settle in Brooklyn and her
relationship with a schizophrenic
"genius."
A Stranger Among Us 1992. Di-
rected by Sidney Lumet. With
Melanie Griffith, Eric Thal. A non-
Jewish detective falls in love with
a Chasidic Jew against the back-
drop of burgled diamonds.
Unstrung Heroes 1995. Direct-
ed by Diane Keaton. With Andie
MacDowell, John Turturro,
Michael Richards. Based on the
autobiography by Franz Lidz, the
story of his youth in the 1960s,
with his dying mother, and his fa-
ther's refusal to accept it.
Used People 1992. Directed by
Beeban Kidron. With Shirley-
MacLaine, Marcello Mastroian-
ni, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy.
Based on the memories of screen-
writer Todd Graffs grandmother
and his play The Grandma Plays.
A Jewish widow meets up with an
old Italian flame, and the opti-
mistic effect it has on her family.
Wandering Jew 1920. With
Rudolf Schildkraut, Joseph
Schildkraut. Rare Austrian silent
of the classic legend.
Yentl 1983. Directed by Barbra
Streisand. With Barbra Streisand,
Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving.
Adapted from the story by Isaac
Bashevis Singer. A Jewish girl in
1900s Eastern Europe masquer-
ades as a man in order to study
Talmud, with romantic predica-
ments ensuing.
Znlmen or the Madness of God
1975. With Joseph Wiseman.
Adapted from the mystical story
by Elie Wiesel. A rabbi struggles
against religious persecution in
Russia.
JEWISH THEMES
The Angel Levine 1970. Direct-
ed by Jan Kadar. With Zero Mos-
tel, Harry Belafonte, Ida
Crossfire 1947. Directed by Ed-
ward Dmytryk. With Robert
Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert
Ryan, Gloria Grahame. The first
Hollywood film exploring racial
bigotry, the director and produc-
er were blacklisted during the Mc-
Carthy hearings. Based on
Richard Brooks' The Brick Fox-
hole. A Jewish hotel guest is mur-
dered.
The Front 1976. Directed by
Martin Ritt. With Woody Allen,
Zero Mostel. Screenplay by black-
listed writer Walter Bernstein.
Woody Allen is enlisted by black-
listed writers to put his name on
their scripts during the 1950s
"witchhunts."
Gentleman's Agreement 1947.
Directed by Ella Kazan. With Gre-
gory Peck, Dorothy McGuire,
John Garfield, Celeste Holm,
Dean Stockwell, many more. A re-
porter masquerades as a Jew to
get the angle on anti-Semitism.
The first Hollywood film to deal
specifically with anti-Semitism.
Homicide 1991. Directed and
written by David Mamet. With
Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy,
Natalija Nogulich. Police thriller
of a detective facing his Jewish
identity while investigating an
anti-Semitic murder.
Leon the Pig Farmer 1993. Di-
rected by Vadim Jean, Gary Shiy-
or. With Mark Frankel, Janet
Suzman. Leon discovers the rea-
son he's never fit into his parents'
Jewish life is that he is the prod-
uct of artificial insemination: His
biological father is a cheerful gen-
tile pig farmer.
Life of Emile Zola 1937. Direct-
ed by William Dieterle. With Paul
Muni, Joseph Schildkraut. Biog-
raphy of 19th century French au-
thor who publicly defended
wrongly accused Jew Alfred Drey-
fus.
M 1931. Directed and written by
Fritz Land. With Peter Lorre,
Ellen Widmann. Lorre's screen
debut and personal favorite of his
films, story of psychotic child mur-
derer brought to justice by Berlin
underworld. Lorre, who was Jew-
ish, was Hitler's favorite actor, and
was asked to make films for the
Nazis before he fled Germany.