
The Great Yiddish Love
Drama · Documentary
Overview
Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and betrayal reassembled from Hollywood, German Ufa and Yiddish films from the 1930s and 40s.
Top Cast


Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich
(archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich
(archive footage)


Zarah Leander
Zarah Leander
(archive footage)
Zarah Leander
(archive footage)


Molly Picon
Molly Picon
Self - Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
Molly Picon
Self - Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
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