“The wedding scene...took over thirty
consecutive hours to film. The food had to be truly
kosher, because we hired Orthodox Jewish men, women
and children of Kazimierez to be guests. As we
filmed, they ate, and for the successive shots of the
table, the food had to be replenished, over and over
again... Our poverty stricken guests couldn't figure
out what was happening. They thought they had been
invited to a real wedding...”
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In
1937, Picon and Kalich filmed Yiddle
Mitn Fidl (Yiddle with his Fiddle) in Poland.
Yiddle is the story of a young girl who dresses
up as a boy so she and her father can earn a
living as traveling musicians. Kalich's first
Yiddish musical, the film not only explores the
by now familiar themes of cross—dressing, but is
a genuine attempt to document urban and rural
Eastern European Jewish experience. |
