Starring - Moishe Oysher, Florence Weiss, The famous cantor Moishe Oysher plays himself in his true life story .
This Yiddish feature film musical drama marks the screen debut of singer and cantor Moishe Oysher.
Shot in Pennsylvania near the Pocono Mountains, the film features Oysher in the title role of a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side (the film includes rare glimpses of the Lower East Side and of 2 nd Avenue Yiddish theater marquees of the period).
While washing floors in a nightclub several years later he is "discovered" and becomes a well-known singer.
Ultimately, Oysher's character returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart.
Yiddish speaking with English subtitles
90 min.
Black and White

Please note: These classical Yiddish Movies have been electronically enhanced to get the best possible video and sound quality. Due to the age and condition of the original movies, it was not always possible to have perfect results.