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The Great Yiddish Love

  • January 2002
  • 15mins

  • Drama
  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Diane Nerwen,

    Starring

    Marlene Dietrich,

    Zarah Leander,

    Molly Picon,

    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.