Product Details

• Actors: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff, Steven Hill
• Directors: Barbra Streisand
• Format: AC-3, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English (Dolby Surround), French (Stereo), Spanish (Mono)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Dubbed: English, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: MGM Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: February 3, 2009
• Run Time: 132 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (294 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001P5HI4A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,543 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #39 in Movies & TV > DVD > Music Videos & Concerts
  • #99 in Movies & TV > DVD > Musicals
• Learn more about "Yentl (Two-Disc Director's Cut)" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Barbra Streisand made her directorial debut with this 1983 adaptation of the Isaac Bashevis Singer story about a young Eastern European woman (Streisand) who disguises herself as a male at the turn of the century in order to get an education. Except for an excessive musical score with too many songs and Streisand's tiresome tendency to play characters who suppress their beauty, the film is crisp and engaging, and the gender-bending love story complications are fun, if gimmicky. Streisand gives a smart, vulnerable performance and gets fresh work from costars Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving. --Tom Keogh

Product Description

Disc 1: Theatrical Cut (Widescreen Feature) Director's Extended Cut (Widescreen Feature) with added scenes from Barbra's Archives An Introduction by Barbra Streisand Commentary with Barbra Streisand and Rusty Lemorande Deleted Scenes

Disc 2: Special Features with Materials from Barbra's Archives An Introduction by Barbra Streisand The Director's Reel The Rehearsal Process with Materials from Barbra's Archives An Introduction by Barbra Streisand “Where is it Written?“ Original Rehearsal Concept “Where is it Written?“ Rehearsal/Feature Comparison “No Wonder - Reprise“ Pre-Rehearsal/Feature Comparison “Tomorrow Night“ Pre-Rehearsal Concept “Tomorrow Night“ Pre-Rehearsal/Feature Comparison “Will Someone Ever Look at Me That Way?“ Rehearsal/Feature Comparison “The Moon and I“ Deleted Song Storyboard Sequence “Several Sins a Day“ Deleted Song Storyboard Sequence Barbra's 8mm Concept Film (Play with Narration / Play without Narration) My Wonderful Cast and Crew Production Stills Gallery Portraits Stills Gallery Behind the Scenes Stills Gallery The Recording Studio Stills Gallery Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trail

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

83 of 87 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Why isn't this on DVD! July 8, 2000

By Shelley Gammon TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:VHS Tape

I just adore this movie. Great acting, sweet story, lots of culture and absolutely fabulous music... I listen to the soundtrack all the time.

Barbara Streisand is perfect at playing an intelligent, yet vulnerable woman in a time and place in which women were supposed to be illiterate and considered to be silly. Her father was a more forward-thinking man in a culture that considered teaching a woman to read something perverse and criminal. When her father dies,she loses everything... women can't read, own property or make decisions concerning the course of her life.

She decides that her persuit of knowledge of the holy scriptures is too important to let the opportunity slip through her fingers, so she cuts her hair and lives life as a male Rabbinical student. Life takes a twist she doesn't expect when she falls for her classmate and subsequently is forced to marry a young girl.

There are a lot of laughing-out-loud moments, but this is mostly just an extremely sweet story of love, sacrifice, tradition and freedom. It's definitely a feel-good movie that will put a lump in your throat. I highly recommend this film.

116 of 129 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Yentl Is A Classic!!!! Release On DVD Please!!!! August 24, 2004

By Bradly Briggs VINE™ VOICE

There are moments in your life you never forget and this is definitely one of them!! Why no release on DVD????? This is crazy when so much crap is out on DVD but not a classic once in a lifetime motion picture like Yentl!!!! Please wake up!!!!!

36 of 39 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars I'm ALL FERKLEMPT! October 9, 2003

By IAN STAHLHUT

Format:VHS Tape

As an impressionable young guy from Sydney, who was into his "Streisand" phase, I won two tickets to see the premier of Barbra's film "Yentl". My brother picked myself and my date up in a limousine and drove us right to the red velvet carpet of the Sydney Cinema where we witnessed this cinematic miracle.
Yentl on the big screen was a joy to behold, and quite touching in it's controversial story. For years, I have patiently waited to see this classic once again in widescreen and stereo, but alas, we have never seen this on DVD. Barbra's film is a tour de force of song and story and cinematic excellence, the true ultimate movie going experience.
Set in the turn of the century Europe when the world of study belonged only to men, a young Jewish woman disguises herself as a man in order to learn more of the world around her, and finds the most powerful of lessons, love.
Please, whoever is releasing titles in DVD, PLEASE put Yentl into production, and find the marvelous documentary of it's making, and include it on the end, I still have this on Video
and treaure it. Barbra wandering around with a small movie camera finding just the right locations is priceless, her interview on Australian 60 minutes about editing the film is also worthy of inclusion.