The Great Yiddish Love

Name: The Great Yiddish Love
Director: Diane Nerwen
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Released: 2002-01-01
Duration: 15 min
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Zarah Leander, Molly Picon

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Directed by Diane Nerwen

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.