Hester Street
1975, Film, 89 min, Drama, Romance, English, United States, MoviePedia score 65
Goodbye O Lord, I'm Going To America!
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
Cast
- Steven Keats as Jake
- Carol Kane as Gitl
- Mel Howard as Bernstein
- Dorrie Kavanaugh as Mamie
- Doris Roberts as Mrs. Kavarsky
- Stephen Strimpell as Joe Peltner
- Lauren Friedman as Fanny
- Paul Freedman as Joey
- Martin Garner as Boss
- Leib Lensky as Peddler
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