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5.0 out of 5 stars Making love in Yiddish
An extraordinarily rare film-- a movie shot in the 1990s with a gorgeous cast of young people speaking Yiddish. To see Yiddish as a living language, to see unfurled in the glory of modern cinematography a world that might have been and might still be is a truly magical experience. The film itself is good, and the cinematography is excellent. There is one of the most...
Published on July 26, 2001 by A voice

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1.0 out of 5 stars Seriously disappointing
Poor character development and an inferior script combine to make this film a big disappointment. Quite boring. The writer/s have no idea how to build a story. Don't get nostolgic...Jewish characters are presented inaccurately and with distain [except for the Communist lover & other characters who reject their Jewish identity].

One of the worst films...
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Making love in Yiddish, July 26, 2001
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This review is from: Ivan and Abraham [VHS] (VHS Tape)
An extraordinarily rare film-- a movie shot in the 1990s with a gorgeous cast of young people speaking Yiddish. To see Yiddish as a living language, to see unfurled in the glory of modern cinematography a world that might have been and might still be is a truly magical experience. The film itself is good, and the cinematography is excellent. There is one of the most tasteful and beautiful love scenes of recent memory. It is a story of life in an Eastern European shtetl. The movie follows several plots, the central one a friendship between two young boys-- Ivan and Abraham, one Jewish, one non-Jewish. This story is encircled by a series of romances between two beautiful young people (both speaking Yiddish!), and a middle-aged married couple (also very sweet). The movie has elements of fairy-tale like lyricism tempered by brutal reality (who could make a story about the shtetl without a pogrom?) Only one facet of the film is an elegy. Mostly it sparkles a prayer of remembrance, a piece of art that gives testament to human kindness and endurance.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Seriously disappointing, October 24, 2010
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This review is from: Ivan and Abraham [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Poor character development and an inferior script combine to make this film a big disappointment. Quite boring. The writer/s have no idea how to build a story. Don't get nostolgic...Jewish characters are presented inaccurately and with distain [except for the Communist lover & other characters who reject their Jewish identity].

One of the worst films i've seen in a while.
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Ivan and Abraham [VHS]
Ivan and Abraham [VHS] by Yolande Zauberman (VHS Tape - 1998)
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