Yiddle With His Fiddle? (Yidl Mitn Fidl) – Film
Berney Theatre
$10 Members | $12 Non-Members

Poland, 1936, 92 minutes,
B&W, Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski

A joyful folk comedy about a man and his daughter who, penniless, decide to become travelling musicians. The daughter disguises herself as a boy to relieve her father’s anxiety about unforeseeable problems that could befall a young woman “out in the world.” Starring Molly Picon, consummate comedienne of  Yiddish theatre , vaudeville, and film and shot on location in a shtetl near Warsaw with it’s real life inhabitants as extras, this film captures the vitality and invincible spirit of traditional small town Jewish Life. It is the all-time most commercially successful musical of the Yiddish Cinema.

“With Picon at her pert best, a lilting score, and picturesque scenery, the 1936 Yidl turned into the first truly international Yiddish-movie hit.” – Karen Lipson, New York Newsday