Green Fields (1937)★ 6.5/10

Approved · US · 106 min · October 11, 1937

• Comedy
• Romance

Directed by: Jacob Ben-Ami, Edgar G. Ulmer

Written by: Peretz Hirschbein, 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.