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Jul 8, 2011 · With Lazer Weiss, Melissa Weisz, Mendy Zafir, Bubbles Yoeli Weiss. Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish is a gritty, funny love story about charismatic and wayward Satmar Hasid youth who encounter Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet when they help a jaded NYC emergency room nurse with the play's translation.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Eve Annenberg
- 2011-07-08
Mendy Zafir is known for Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish (2010).
- Actor, Producer
- Mendy Zafir
Jul 8, 2011 · Mendy Zafir in a scene from "Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish." Vilna City Films. By A.O. Scott. July 7, 2011. “Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish” tucks Shakespeare’s tale of greatest woe into a story of...
Jul 11, 2011 · Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish. A comedic rendering of Shakespeare's majestic iambic pentameter delivered in the sharply rising and falling cadences of colloquial Yiddish. By Ronnie Scheib.
May 25, 2012 · Mendy Zafir in a scene from “Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish” photo/courtesy of vilna city films “Other Yiddish films will come down the pike,” said Annenberg, who attended Juilliard and Columbia University’s film school, “but I think people might say ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was the first to use this much colloquial Yiddish in ...
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With hang-ups about her own family and past religious experiences, Ava enlists the help of two enterprising young Hasidic drop-outs who have been fending for themselves on the streets, Lazer (Lazer Weiss) and Mendy (Mendy Zafir).
