The Great Yiddish Love

15min

Drama

Documentary

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.

Cast

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

(archive footage)
Zarah Leander

Zarah Leander

(archive footage)
Molly Picon

Molly Picon

Self - Narrator (voice) (archive footage)

Release date

1st Jan 2002

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English, Deutsch,