Jewish Luck

1925 RomanceComedy 100 minutes Directed by Alexis Granowsky

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About Jewish Luck

Menakhem-Mendl tries to make money by opening an insurance office and by selling haberdashery in the street. Both fail. He then learns the names of rich brides and sets out to work as a shadkhn, a matchmaker. Solomon Mikhoels plays him. Aleksey Granovsky directed the silent film.

Cast & crew

More about Jewish Luck

Isaak Babel wrote it, Eduard Tisse photographed it, and Lev Pulver is the composer on Wikidata. The length there is 100 minutes and the year is 1925. Tamara Adelgeym plays Belya Kimbach.

Themes

  • schemes that fail
  • street trade
  • a turn to matchmaking
  • Menakhem-Mendl
  • insurance
  • haberdashery
  • shadkhn
  • Mikhoels

Look

Eduard Tisse photographed Granovsky's silent feature.

Music

Lev Pulver is the composer credited on Wikidata.

Notes

  • Moisei Goldblat plays Zalman.
  • A. Epstein plays Iosele, Menakhem-Mendl's son, and I. Rogaler plays Usher, a matchmaker.
  • The English plot stops at his decision to become a shadkhn and does not show whether the new scheme works.
  • Tisse's credit is the camera, the same cinematographer then working with Eisenstein.

Scenes

  • After the insurance office and the haberdashery both fail, Menakhem-Mendl starts collecting the names of rich brides.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (1925. Еврейское счастье.webm)