YENTL
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Country: USA, 1983 Director: Barbra Streisand Cast: Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin โฑ Duration: 133 minutes ๐ Language: English ๐ฌ Subtitles: Hebrew Haifa Film Festival: Haifa Classics Behind the Screen: Barbra Streisand Barbra Streisand's directorial debut โ which she also wrote and stars in โ adapts a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer for the screen. Streisand fought for years with the studios to get the film made. She delivers a musical, romantic film that was ahead of its time in tackling questions of Jewish identity, gender, and women's liberation, and is also remembered for its wonderful Oscar-winning title song. Rabbi Mendel is a widowed father who teaches Talmud to the boys of his town in Poland. In secret, at home, he also teaches his daughter Yentl, even though girls are forbidden to study Torah and Talmud. When the rabbi dies, Yentl is determined to keep studying. She cuts her hair, disguises herself as a young man, and manages to be accepted into a yeshiva. To her surprise, along the way she also finds love. 133 minutes, English, Hebrew subtitles.
