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Release Date: 1937

Cast: Helen Beverley

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Romance Film

Green Fields (Yiddish: Grine Felder or Grune Felder) is a 1937 American comedy-drama directed by Jacob Ben-Ami and Edgar G. Ulmer and written by Peretz Hirschbein. A film adaptation of Hirschbein's 1916 play of the same name, the low-budget movie was filmed in New Jersey. The National Center of Jewish Cinema has praised Green Fields saying that the film "heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema." Levy Yitzchok (Michael Goldstein), an orphaned student, leaves his yeshiva to search for "true Jews". He meets a family of Jewish peasants living on a farm in the shtetl. The family accept him as... MORE

Green Fields (Yiddish: Grine Felder or Grune Felder) is a 1937 American comedy-drama directed by Jacob Ben-Ami and Edgar G. Ulmer and written by Peretz Hirschbein. A film adaptation of Hirschbein's 1916 play of the same name, the low-budget movie was filmed in New Jersey. The National Center of Jewish Cinema has praised Green Fields saying that the film "heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema." Levy Yitzchok (Michael Goldstein), an orphaned student, leaves his yeshiva to search for "true Jews". He meets a family of Jewish peasants living on a farm in the shtetl. The family accept him as a boarder, and Yitzchok tutors their children. According to the Los Angeles Times, the film is told in a "leisurely fashion". J. Hoberman wrote that the film was "sunlit and air-filled, yet suffused with yearning". In 1938, the moviegoers who watched Green Fields in the Warner Grand Theatre would not leave the movie theater until "the last foot of film was unreeled". The film received rave reviews and was a financial success. In 1938, Green Fields won the "Best Foreign Award" in France. In 2000, Jane Sumner of The Dallas Morning News praised the film for being a "slow but charming celebration of LESS