Green Fields (1937)

Release Date: 1937-01-01
Runtime: 1h 46min
Production Company: Collective Film Producers Inc.
Production Country: United States of America
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Writer: George Moskov

Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of "true Jews," he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in as a tutor for their children.