The Great Yiddish Love

Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and betrayal reassembled from Hollywood, German Ufa and Yiddish films from the 1930s and 40s.

Cast

Marlene Dietrich

as (archive footage)

Zarah Leander

as (archive footage)

Molly Picon

as Self - Narrator (voice) (archive footage)

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