Yentl
(2009, original release: 1983)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/YENTL

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/DRAMA/YENTL Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor], [2009]
EDITION
Director's extended edition
DESCRIPTION

2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
6312586553 111776, 883904117766
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from container

Yentl Mendel is the boyish daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe Mendel. He teaches Talmud to local boys and secretly to Yentl since girls are not allowed to learn the law. When her father dies, Yentl is left all alone. She makes the momentous decision to leave the village and, disguised as a boy and calling herself Anshel, she seeks and gets admitted to a Yeshiva, to study. She befriends Avigdor who is engaged to Haddas. Her family calls off the wedding when they discover Avigdor's brother committed suicide. Anshel then finds 'him'-self in the awkward position of being called into service as substitute bridegroom. But Haddas still wants Avigdor. After numerous complications, including Avidor and Yentl falling in love with each other and she telling him her secret, everyone gets what they want in life. Anshel, now Yentl once again, goes off to America to pursue her dream of serious study in Yeshiva, where she will be able to study without needing to hide her identity as a woman

Based on the story "Yentl, the Yeshiva boy" by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Originally released as a motion picture in 1983

Director of photography, David Watkin ; editor, Terry Rawlings ; music, Michel Legrand

Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff

MPAA rating: PG; Some material may not be suitable for children

DVD, Region 1; widescreen (1.66:1); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital surround, Dolby Digital stereo., Dolby Digital mono

English (Dolby 5.1, Dolby surround), dubbed French (Dolby stereo.) or dubbed Spanish (Dolby mono.) dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

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