Screenings

Yentl treats its romances with the respect due to genuine emotion, and its performances are so good

ROGER EBERT
  • Festival 42
  • Director: Barbra Streisand
  • USA 1983
  • 133 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also instructs his daughter, Yentl, despite the fact that girls are forbidden to study religious texts. When Yentl's father dies, she still has a strong desire to learn about her faith, so she disguises herself as a young man, enrolls in a yeshiva, and unexpectedly finds love along the way.

Barbra Streisand's directorial debut adapts Isaac Bashevis Singer's story for the screen. Yentl was Streisand's passion project, and she fought for years to bring it to the screen, creating a blockbuster musical epic.

Filmography: The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), The Prince of Tides (1991).

 

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  • Director Barbra Streisand
  • Production Rusty Lemorande, Barbra Streisand
  • Script Jack Rosenthal, Barbra Streisand, based on "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy" by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Cinematography David Watkin
  • Editing Terry Rawlings
  • Music Michel Legrand
  • Awards: Academy Awards (Oscar for Best Music, Original Song), Golden Globes (Best Picture Award, Best Director Award)
  • Actors Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin
  • Source Park Circus

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