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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Isaac Bashevis Singer (novel)
Roger L. Simon (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
13 December 1989 (USA) more
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Plot:
Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor (Ron Silver) who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi... more | add synopsis
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Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination more
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(7 articles)
Ron Silver Dies at 62
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We Honor Ron Silver
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Claustrophobic more (9 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Ron Silver ... Herman Broder

Anjelica Huston ... Tamara Broder

Lena Olin ... Masha
Malgorzata Zajaczkowska ... Yadwiga (as Margaret Sophie Stein)

Alan King ... Rabbi Lembeck

Judith Malina ... Masha's Mother
Rita Karin ... Mrs. Schreier
Phil Leeds ... Pesheles

Elya Baskin ... Yasha Kobik
Paul Mazursky ... Leon Tortshiner
L.J. Dollinger ... Reb Nissen Yaroslaver
Zypora Spaisman ... Sheva Haddas
Arthur Grosser ... Doctor
Burney Lieberman ... Yom Kippur Cantor
Nathaniel Katzman ... Wedding Cantor
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119 min
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Masha: Herman! This is the last time I'm going to talk to you, and I'm going to tell you you're the worst fraud I've known in my life! If you hear that I'm dead, don't come to my funeral. more
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Featured in The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Love Is Here To Stay more

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8 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Claustrophobic, 2 January 1999
Author: anonymous from Israel

a hellish tale about a modern jobe from Bashevis Zinger's Novel. Herman Broder(Ron Silver), a holocaust surviver, lives in the 1940's New York with the polish peasant that hid hom during the war, has an affair with Mash (Lena Olin) , a half crazed camps survivor and has to deal with his first wife, supposedly dead, Tamara (Anjeliqua Huston). All of this is brought in a suffocated, sarcastic, sweaty manner, that you feel his suffering. An excellent performance by all of the above in a movie in a very impressive film

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