The Jolly Paupers
The Jolly Paupers ★★½ Frey-lekhe Kabtsonim 1938
A pre-war comedy made in Warsaw about two small-town Jews who try to achieve fame and fortune in the face of setbacks, community quarrels, and insanity. In Yiddish with English subtitles. 62m/B VHS . Shimon Dzigan, Yisroel Shumacher, Max Bozyk, Menasha Oppenheim; D: Zygmund Turkow.
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