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The Light Ahead (1939)

ALL 06/01/1939 (en) 94 Min
  • Release
    06/01/1939
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    57%
  • Original title
    Fishke der Krumer
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

The Light Ahead is possibly the greatest of Edgar G. Ulmer’s shtetl films. Here, the director counterpoints his pastoral Green Fields to criticize the poverty and superstition that oppress a pair of star-crossed lovers. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and painfully conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free from the poverty and stifling old-world prejudices of the shtetl. The benevolent and enlightened bookseller Mendele helps them, turning small-town superstitions to their advantage. Based on Mendele Mokher Seforim's story of love frustrated by small-town ignorance, this luminous allegory of escape marries Edgar Ulmer's masterful direction with superb acting by members of New York's Artef and Yiddish Art Theaters.

  1. Edgar G. Ulmer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Peter E. Kassler

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Helen Beverly

    Hodele (the blind)

  2. David Opatoshu

    Fishke (the lame)

  3. Isidore Cashier

    Mendele Moicher Sforim

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 3 , Crews : 6

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The Light Ahead (1939) 94 Min

ALL 06/01/1939 (en)
  • Release 06/01/1939
  • Production
  • Original title Fishke der Krumer
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

The Light Ahead is possibly the greatest of Edgar G. Ulmer’s shtetl films. Here, the director counterpoints his pastoral Green Fields to criticize the poverty and superstition that oppress a pair of star-crossed lovers. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and painfully conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free from the poverty and stifling old-world prejudices of the shtetl. The benevolent and enlightened bookseller Mendele helps them, turning small-town superstitions to their advantage. Based on Mendele Mokher Seforim's story of love frustrated by small-town ignorance, this luminous allegory of escape marries Edgar Ulmer's masterful direction with superb acting by members of New York's Artef and Yiddish Art Theaters.

  1. Edgar G. Ulmer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Peter E. Kassler

    Producer



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