Yentl Soundtrack

Synopsis: In an Ashkenazic shtetl in Poland, Yentl Mendel is the boyishly klutzy daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe ("Talmud Teacher") Mendel, who teaches Talmud (a codification of Jewish Law) to local boys - and to Yentl, but secretly because girls were not allowed to learn the law in those days. When her father dies, Yentl is all alone in the world. She takes the momentous decision to leave the village and - disguised as a boy and calling herself by the name of her late brother, Anshel - seeks and gets admitted to a Yeshiva, to study the texts, traditions, subtleties and complexities of Torah, Talmud, etc. She befriends Avigdor who is engaged to Haddas, but her family discovers his brother committed suicide so they call off the wedding (in case Avigdor possesses the same madness). Anshel then finds "him"-self in the awkward position of being called into service as substitute bridegroom, so that the wedding can go ahead and Haddas will have a husband. It is a marriage that never gets
Director(s): Barbra Streisand
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
PG
Year:
1983
133 min
2,534 Views


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1No Matter What Happens4:03
2No Wonder2:30
3Papa, Can You Hear Me?3:29
4Piece of Sky4:19
5The Way He Makes Me Feel4:09
6This Is One of Those Moments4:07
7Tomorrow Night4:43
8Where Is It Written?4:52

Jack Rosenthal

Jack Morris Rosenthal (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004) was an English playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations. A street in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester is named after him, appropriately next to a centre of contemporary art, theatre and film that opened in 2015, HOME. more…

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