Directed by Eugen Illes & Viktor Janson
With Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, Viktor Janson
The Yellow Ticket was made at the end of World War I and on the eve of the Russian revolution. It stars an adolescent Pola Negri, who would later become the legendary femme fatale of the silent era, and tells the story of an innocent young Jewish woman from a Polish shtetl who is constrained by anti-Semitic restrictions to lead a double life in a brothel while attempting to study medicine in Tsarist Russia. The film includes precious footage of the former Jewish quarter of Warsaw and the people who once lived there. Alicia Svigals is the world's foremost klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics. Marilyn Lerner is a virtuoso pianist who will perform on Sage Chapel’s grand piano.
1918 > Germany > 1 hr 6 min See a trailer.
Cosponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts, the Jewish Studies Program, the CU Klezmer Ensemble, the Dept of Music, the Cornell Institute for European Studies, the Arts Committee of Temple Beth-El, the Wharton Studio Museum and Tikkun v’Or.
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