Article Reprints from 0 ET ROIT 1 THE JEWISH NEWS FAST FORWARD page 79 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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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.