Yentl (1983)

Storyline :   At the beginning of the XX century, in an Ashkenazic shtetl in Poland, Yentl Mendel  is the boyishly klutzy daughter and only...

Storyline :  At the beginning of the XX century, in an Ashkenazic shtetl in Poland, Yentl Mendel  is the boyishly klutzy daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe Mendel, who teaches Talmud  to local boys - and to Yentl, but secretly because girls were not allowed to learn the law in those days. When her father dies, Yentl is all alone in the world. She takes the momentous decision to leave the village and - disguised as a boy and calling herself by the name of her late brother, Anshel - seeks and gets admitted to a Yeshiva, to study the texts, traditions, subtleties and complexities of Torah, Talmud, etc. She befriends Avigdor who is engaged to Haddas, but her family discovers his brother committed suicide so they call off the wedding.  Anshel then finds "him"-self in the awkward position of being called into service as substitute bridegroom, so that the wedding can go ahead and Haddas will have a husband. {full_page}

Stars :  Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff, Steven Hill, Allan Corduner, Miriam Margolyes, Ruth Goring, David de Keyser {fbt_gallery_post}