Hester Street

Hester Street
1975DramaRomance90 mins
★★★★★

Plot

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated b... read more

  • Joan Micklin Silver

    Director

  • Joan Micklin Silver

    Screenplay

  • Abraham Cahan

    Writer

  • Kenneth Van Sickle

    Director of Photography

  • Katherine Wenning

    Editor

  • Steven Keats

    Jake

  • Carol Kane

    Gitl

  • Mel Howard

    Bernstein

  • Dorrie Kavanaugh

    Mamie

  • Doris Roberts

    Mrs. Kavarsky

  • Stephen Strimpell

    Joe Peltner

  • Lauren Friedman

    Fanny

  • Paul Freedman

    Joey

  • Martin Garner

    Boss

  • Leib Lensky

    Peddler

  • Zane Lasky

    Greenhorn

  • Zvee Scooler

    Rabbi

  • Eda Reiss Merin

    Rabbi's Wife

  • Robert Lesser

    Lawyer

  • Joanna Merlin

    Jake's Landlady

  • Claudia Silver

    Feigie

  • Ed Crowley

    Inspector

  • Philip Sterling

    Mr. Lipman

  • Sol Frieder

    Scribe

  • Joel Wolfe

    Kaminsky

  • Mordecai Lawner

    Waiter

  • Anna Berger

    Poultry Woman

  • Bert Salzman

    Zalman

  • Billy Natbony

  • Lin Shaye

    Whore

    • Runtime

    90 minutes

    Released

    1975-10-19

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    Midwest Films

    Updated

    122 days ago

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