(Movie poster). Durch Treren [“Through Tears.”]

(SOVIET UNION).

1928

Text in Russian and Yiddish.

This Ukrainian film was based on Sholem Aleichem’s theatrical novel “Wandering Stars” and depicts the Shtetl as an ideological landscape in a struggle for existence. However it was withdrawn from circulation for “idealizing the pathological decadent mood of the decaying bourgeoisie.”