The Great Yiddish Love

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.

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Cast

Marlene Dietrich

(archive footage)

Zarah Leander

(archive footage)

Molly Picon

Self - Narrator (voice) (archive footage)