The Chosen One

Short

June 9
2:30pm
In Person
Carlton Cinema
June 15
- June 17
Online
Online at TJFF Virtual Cinema
COUNTRY
United States
Year
2022
Running Time
19 minutes
Language
Yiddish
Subtitles
English
Director
Elazar Fine
Cast
Mike Burstyn, Malky Goldman, Luzer Twersky

After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, Efrayim Eisenstein (Luzer Twersky) is violently thrown out of his family home. He finds refuge with his estranged, ex-religious aunt Stephanie, but flees her apartment in the middle of the night after she walks in on him in a particularly shameful moment. Also starring Malky Goldman (The Vigil, Moishe Badhan or The Tale of a Wedding Entertainer) and Mike Burstein (Two Kuni Lemel, Juda).

Part of New Yiddish Talkies: A Short Film Programme.

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