East and West

1923 DramaComedy 85 minutes Directed by Ivan Abramson

About East and West

New York gambler Morris Brownstein takes his American daughter Mollie to Galicia for a family wedding. She meets Jacob, a yeshiva student. He leaves the religious life and joins the secular world to win her.

Cast & crew

More about East and West

Ivan Abramson and Sidney M. Goldin directed this Austrian silent film, also called Ost und West and Good Luck. It opened on 17 August 1923 in eight reels, with German intertitles. Eduard Hoesch photographed it. Molly Picon plays Mollie. The listed running time is 85 minutes.

Themes

  • A gambler’s daughter at a family wedding
  • A yeshiva student who leaves
  • New York manners in Galicia
  • Mollie
  • Morris Brownstein
  • Jacob
  • Galicia
  • yeshiva
  • Molly Picon

Making

Picon and Kalich, who were married, play the daughter and the student. Goldin shares the direction with Abramson.

Look

Eduard Hoesch photographed the Galician wedding and Mollie’s arrival from New York.

Music

Silent, with German intertitles.

Notes

  • Jacob Kalich plays Jacob, billed as a Talmudist and also as Ben Ali.
  • Sidney M. Goldin plays Morris Brownstein, also called Brown.
  • Laura Glucksman plays Grandmother Brownstein. Eugen Neufeld plays Alfred Freed.
  • The story moves from New York to a Galician wedding.
  • Goldin is both director and the father on screen.

Scenes

  • Mollie meets the yeshiva student at the family wedding in Galicia.