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Hester Street

Hester Street

6.1/ 10

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1975

Release Year

90 min

Runtime

Drama
Romance

Overview

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.

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Keywords

manhattan, new york city
woman director
russian emigre
19th century

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@Geronimo1967

July 28, 2024

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7/10

There are a couple of really quite poignant performances here from "Jake" (Steven Keats) and his wife "Gitl" (Carol Kane) as together with their young son they try to make a new life in New York after fleeing from Russia. He had arrived some time earlier and had already become exposed to some of the

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